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BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE
DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL
TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT
BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS
REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE
ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY
GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT
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404+ Palestinians MURDERED in less than a day.
They are both currently at the northern part where the zionist pigs are bombing! The situation is too dire as more Palestinians are dying.
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everyone is so jealous of me bc i lead a monastic life..
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“never wanting anything for urself is a sign of depression” someone’s addicted to earthly things..
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spoilers for I Saw The TV Glow -
I keep seeing interpretations of Owen revisiting The Pink Opaque and finding it cheesy/childish as being a critique of nostalgia / not worshipping media from your youth, and sure whatever, I get the angle - but I don’t read it that way?
It’s “cheesy” because she’s snuffed out the spark. The glow. She grew up to Be A Man. Raise A Family. She severed the psychic connection - and with that repression, she loses the emotional richness she found in the show as a kid, it’s no longer a boundless space of self exploration / expansion because she’s shoved it all back down and buried it deep inside herself. And that’s the tragedy of that scene. Her family is nonexistent, the campfire she sits around is missing Tara, her favorite show is rendered emotionless, like herself… she snuffed out the space to become the Isabel she always was.
It’s that societal pressure to conform, to sand down your edges and be “consumable”to society. To be “content”, in both senses of the word.
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2nd watch, a few new details:
- On the first watch, I was like "of course Owen couldn't go with Maddy the first time, her mom had cancer :(". But this time I caught that Maddy went missing "a few weeks" after Owen's mom died. Owen had nothing left to stay for. Maddy probably waited around for those extra weeks, just in case Owen had a change of heart. And yet,
- The first time we see the dress flashback, it's through what seems like a relatively objective perspective. The second time we see it (as they walk to the grave), the memory has taken on the vhs-fuzz and aspect ratio of the pink opaque tapes. The real becomes unreal, an impossible fantasy, "kid stuff"
- Happened to see a captioned screening this time, and the Tara from the streaming version is described as "Fake Tara."
- The tv guide page Owen finds by the electrical field is for "season 6, episode 1: Escape from the Midnight Realm"
- Mr. Melancholy and Maddy's ex friend who accused them of dykery ("like a secret agent sent to ruin my life") were the same actor
- All the school hallway motivational posters are thematically relevant, but this time I caught the "the only easy day is yesterday" and "courage: without it, no other virtues matter" ones
- You can see the emotional shifts between Owen and Narrator Owen in real time (ie, Owen looking distraught as the firefighters surround Maddy's tv, then dropping the expression and looking coolly into the camera as she starts to narrate again)
- There's an interesting recurring thing where audio from the near "future" plays over footage from the "past." ie, we hear Maddy's planetarium monologue, while we watch Owen still walking to the school to meet them. Something about time not working right, something about Owen playing back memories that already happened, something about inevitability and walking down a path with a fixed ending
- Void High School, or VHS
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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😋 this strain is called "i saw the tv glow" itll have you zoinked out of your gourd 💯
me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit
5 hours later: dude i swear my living body is somewhere under the ground buried alive and i'm here to get my beating heart back
my best friend maddytara pacing around the room: this isn’t normal. this isn’t normal. this isn’t how life is supposed to be.
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When The Pink Opaque is on tv, it’s a different ratio aspect then the rest of the movie (i.e. the “real world” portions of the movie) and as you can see there is that black border on the sides indicating that it’s what’s being seen on tv. But when Isabel is being buried alive, it’s in the same ratio aspect as the “real world,” filling the whole screen, indicating that it’s not just what’s happening on tv but also in reality. Anyway I thought this was an interesting editing choice it kind of supports the idea that her death is real etc
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i uploaded i saw the tv glow to my drive if anyone wants it!!
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This isn't how life is supposed to feel
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i just. when owen tried on isabel's magic dress and maddy blushed and smiled and hid in her hand. the intimacy in how she drew the symbol on the back of owen's neck. an out lesbian showing those feelings for a closeted, pre-transition trans girl who doesn't even seem to know that's true of herself yet. knowing her before she knows herself. don't speak to me i'm literally dust on the floor
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oh thank goodness