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  • Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph spoil I Saw the TV Glow - a 2024 American psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun.
    Premise: Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled.
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    Cast:
    Justice Smith as Owen
    Ian Foreman as younger Owen
    Brigette Lundy-Paine as Maddy
    Helena Howard as Isabel
    Fred Durst as Frank
    Danielle Deadwyler as Brenda
    Lindsey Jordan as Tara
    Amber Benson as Johnny Link's Mom
    Conner O'Malley as Dave
    Emma Portner as Mr. Melancholy/Marco/Amanda Evil Clown
    Michael C. Maronna as Neighbor #1
    Danny Tamberelli as Neighbor #2
    Phoebe Bridgers as herself
    Haley Dahl as herself
    Kristina Esfandiari as herself
    Cinematography by Eric K. Yue
    Edited by Sofi Marshall
    Music by Alex G
    Keywords: ending explained, reaction video, trailer, A24, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, SXSW, We're All Going to the World's Fair
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  • @zlobna_bulka
    @zlobna_bulka Місяць тому +34

    I was a goth teenager in school in the 90's and had a queer friend 2 years older than me. our favorite show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We always watched it together .
    This movie gives me chill

  • @cozmicshroomzpro1
    @cozmicshroomzpro1 23 дні тому +51

    I can absolutely understand why it didn't connect for you, it connected so hard for me. I felt like it captured the dread and pain of Dysphoria and Repression so well and brought back those feelings for me which brought me to tears.
    I feel like the ending and story can be interpreted in so many ways, Taken literally, Maddie's monologue has them say multiple times they change their name, embraced a new life and died to live anew and invites them to do the same. Owen rejects Maddie's invite to leave town once already so this is another chance. Rejecting Maddie again is further proof of Owen burying themselves in their unsatisfying life. Given how the movie present this footage and when we see how shitty and awful the show looked upon rewatch, the final episode feels like it might be what happened to these two and Owen is in fact living a false life but refuses to accept themselves and runs away because its easier to live the lie despite deep down wanting to leave.
    The last section is fascinating to me as it says its 20 years later but none of his co-workers look aged at all while Owen looks decayed and heavily aged as if living this lie of a life has taken a major toll on them. The theme of time and its advancement is frequently mentioned throughout the film. Life in the closet can go by in a flash when you bury yourself in it and I feel like this is whats happening to Owen, as their only respite at the end is them opening themselves up to their inner self for a moment. Importantly, right before this last bit the phrase 'There is still time' is written on the road. Owen apologizing profusely to me is unsatisfying but also the first time we see Owen actively talk to others intentionally, signalling to me that they're opening up and possibly coming around to the idea that their reality is false.

    • @clarissanavarro2762
      @clarissanavarro2762 22 дні тому +9

      I agree with a Lot of what you said, and also found myself crying as I watched. I am a Trans woman that started transition later in life. I found myself understanding the dynamic between Maddie and Owen,... about Maddie wanting Owen to transition even if it means cutting off their family to do so... about how living as deadname would suffocate him until he died.... This Very much was how I felt,... until I started Transition.
      I also find it interesting that Owen is the only one that ever sees Maddie,... No one else in the film ever interacts with Maddy... and Owen never tells his parents about Maddie, while we never see Maddie's parents. I wonder if Maddie is a representation of Owen's inner self. One Line sticks out to me " be sure to leave before sundown,... if My dad sees you he'll break my jaw again." and.... we see that Owen fears their own dad.
      A lot of this film hits hard for me because it speaks about how Horrifying life is,....after you understand that you are in fact trans,...and refuse to act on it. The scene in the bathroom... jus' sayin'... All I know is that knowing what I know about myself today,... I would never go back ... Boy-moding is a horror show for me. " You can take my Hormones when you pry them out of my cold dead fingers... "
      While There is a movie here for cis and straight people about a Life unlived, and mearly existed,... for them this is just tragedy. I think for us queers, the horror of living a life in the closet is truly fear inducing, since for us,... it used to be a possibility,... and for some of us, we may still be Owen.
      To all the Owen's out there,... follow Maddie.

    • @RyanABXY
      @RyanABXY 13 днів тому +1

      100%

    • @jkteddy77
      @jkteddy77 12 днів тому +5

      Something else i garnered from Owen's premature aging is as a reference to the lives unfortunately cut short for so many queer people in today's society

    • @RyanABXY
      @RyanABXY 12 днів тому +1

      @@jkteddy77 ya that makes total sense

    • @cozmicshroomzpro1
      @cozmicshroomzpro1 12 днів тому +1

      @@jkteddy77 that thought came to my mind as well yeah. spot on.

  • @missmiko1
    @missmiko1 Місяць тому +42

    The idea of David Lynch making a YA film made me laugh hard.That will be stuck in my head all day.

    • @joedixon1186
      @joedixon1186 Місяць тому +2

      I would definitely see it if he ever did one.

    • @RykComerford
      @RykComerford Місяць тому +3

      Lynch's most successful show, Twin Peaks, was about many teenage characters (if not actors) in high school.

  • @jacksonunitedfund6239
    @jacksonunitedfund6239 18 днів тому +5

    You guys and Red Letter Media are the only UA-cam film reviewers I can enjoy - no pretension, all substance!

  • @AmarisFrede
    @AmarisFrede Місяць тому +33

    'Acting' like life is a video game or a movie to cope is called dissociation. I do it voluntarily, which is okay, but some people just slip into it, and need help.

    • @Stress-Free-K
      @Stress-Free-K Місяць тому +3

      ya ... I was wondering if Maddy was schizophrenic. But I guess the point was to keep the audience in the dark.

  • @LexisReadz
    @LexisReadz Місяць тому +31

    Joseph’s facial reactions to Nick’s pull quotes are my favorite thing 😂

    • @henryardoin8513
      @henryardoin8513 Місяць тому

      Thanks boys for watching crap so I don't have to"! Guess if I want to watch something truly scary, I could watch Jaguar wright tell the truth! Truth is stranger than fiction!👍✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜😎

  • @politefan8141
    @politefan8141 19 днів тому +6

    I didn't understand how he had those tapes the whole time and only rewatched the show when it came to streaming. Surely, that would have cleared up his confusion as to what really or didn't really happen. At least include a scene of him throwing out his VCR.

  • @danielkuhne1111
    @danielkuhne1111 Місяць тому +88

    Went to the restroom during the monologue. Got back and she was still mid monologue 🤣

    • @gaddes01
      @gaddes01 20 днів тому +4

      damn bruh you're lucky, i tried to watch and my brain just switched off at that point

  • @th8470
    @th8470 Місяць тому +14

    Joseph you recounting your adolescence made me choke up 😢 I’m glad you’re having a wonderful life now! ❤️

  • @jkteddy77
    @jkteddy77 25 днів тому +38

    My hand at cutting through the dense fog of metaphor. Would love knowing what you two think through its lens.
    The Pink Opaque is a mirror to Owen and Maddy, except instead of being a literal psychic connection like Tara and Isabel share, their unseen "Psychic connection" metaphorically is that they are fighting a similar battle with their own identity.
    When Owen first sees Maddy, he recognizes her book, a metaphor for something he was exposed to on TV for the first time the night prior. She shows him it and shares encouragingly, seeing his curiosity in The Pink Opaque. The book is more than just an episode guide, it is exposure to an idea.
    Owen's strict "curfew" is a euphonism for the strict boundaries in which he had to live inside his home. He was only exposed to The Pink Opaque when he could sneak away from the prying eyes of his parents over at Maddy's.
    In high school and meeting Maddy again on the bleachers, Owen shares that he was too afraid to look inside himself in fear of what he would find in that empty space, so he represses it, and you can see it in his mannerisms and behavior. Maddy is fighting her own battle, sharing how persecuted she feels by her peers and the betrayal of her ex-best friend when she trusted and shared her real self.
    Convinced that she would die if she has to stay in “town” for much longer, Maddy makes her escape. She invites Owen to follow her, but he's gets cold feet, tattling on himself to get grounded, not having to face the decision. The show ending on season 5 shortly after was evidence of her liberation, the final episode depicting the Maddy which Owen had known being buried, and that Owen was close behind except for himself, it was by force. The Pink Opaque was only an ongoing journey for him while Maddy was there with him.
    Maddy describes the years passing by so fast since the "show ended", by 22 had had enough of time passing her by unhappily, and finally broke out of her coffin and was reborn as who she really was, clearly cutting her hair and expressing herself. It's a Maddy that Owen didn't even recognize at first. She brings Owen to a safe space to speak, a sapphic bar.
    Before telling her own journey, she first pesters Owen with whether he had reached his own conclusion yet. Not hearing the answer she was hoping for, she explains she found not only herself, her true beating heart in the freezer, but also Owens in recognizing that they had always been in this conflict together, the nightmare realm of the show, and the present nightmare of living under the wrong identity.
    Maddy had "escaped" the show after the end of season 5. She describes how she asked to be buried alive (what did that boy really do to her for $50 ‘unknowingly’ ?...), explaining how she reborned herself, prying herself out of her coffin. Being “Buried” in this film is a euphonism for being trapped in the closet. She escaped melancholy. She escaped her closet. Owen originally tried to go after her, seeing the scene of the crime outside her home. She had made it out of the TV burning in the front yard leaving him. Yet, she was trauma bonded with Owen. Whether out of love or just guilt for how she left him behind “in town” or in parallel to the show, succumbing to Mr. Melancholy, she couldn't move forward with her life into season 6 with her own heart as Tara, knowing Owen and Isabel were still living in hell without theirs.
    When Maddy invites him the next evening to directly confront this realization with him, he resists, calling her insane, rejecting looking inside himself. Maddy states she is certain that he already knows deep down as well what's there. Think back she says, as he recalls trying on her dresses at her house one of those Saturday night sleepovers.
    On the football field, Owen repeats the tv show premise that the monsters in the drain don't exist if he doesn't think of them. He refuses to fight the battle inside, and rejects Maddy's guidance right at the end before the process of rebirth. Maddy stares on as he runs away, and this time doesn't come back for them. After years of being dedicated to taping and sharing The Pink Opaque, she finally went back for her heart to live on as Tara and gave up on Isabel. She was not going to stop drinking the lunar juice and ever wake up.
    Owen watches the final episode again, every rewatch ever closer to their breakthrough in who they really are, and this time he even jumps into the TV, so close to escaping his personal hell as Maddy did 8 years earlier, but his abusive and judgmental father who once told him The Pink Opaque was just for girls pulled him back in, "waking him up" by force over the tub and back into his "Snow Globe".
    The most obvious euphonism was little Owen inside the snow globe, seeing the flashing pinks, blues, and whites luminating from the TV screen the very first time he saw the show "advertised" (though he was never really "familiar" yet), and another moment of awakening inside the clearly Pink, Blue, and White colored Parachute, these being the colors of the transgender pride flag.
    As time wears he doesn’t even relate to the plot of The Pink Opaque anymore when revisiting it, the feelings he once held are so repressed it’s unrecognizable.
    12 years go by since he rejects retrieving his heart back, and his asthma is getting worse. He's nearly dying by age 35, insinuating the young ages at which trans people so often reach the end of their lives. His inhaler stops working, he can't keep going. Even when he desperately cuts himself open to see what's inside, Owen allows himself the brief relief in the bathroom mirror. Isabel has died and he made sure of it. But he still dresses back up and returns to work, continuing to apologize for who she really is as Maddy had warned him to stop doing in her living room 22 years prior.

    • @ambrosine8689
      @ambrosine8689 25 днів тому +12

      this was exactly my read on it! as a person who discovered their trans identity with one of my friends in high school, this movie captured those exact same emotions. i really enjoyed this movie.

    • @jkteddy77
      @jkteddy77 25 днів тому +3

      @ambrosine8689 so cool it was relatable, much of Jane's stories are sewn with thay shared experience

    • @richardwilliams8008
      @richardwilliams8008 23 дні тому +8

      Thanks for the analysis and breakdown of the film! I just saw the movie today and I'm like, "Why is Justice wearing a dress?". 🤔 I guess because the theatres list the movie as a horror film, I always gravitated to the two characters being in (or trapped in) some sort of Twight Zone-type hell and never really picked up on the trans allegories and allusions sprinkled throughout the film. Then again, I'm a heterosexual male, so maybe that was the point. I may go see the movie again this time with your synopsis in mind. Definitely a movie that makes you think; thanks again for your upload!

    • @clarissanavarro2762
      @clarissanavarro2762 22 дні тому +2

      I find so much in what you have written makes sense to me. As a trans woman that has transitioned late in life, so much of Owen's life resonated so hard with me that it literally brought me to tears. Those that see this through a queer lens understand the horrors of living in the closet well enough that we recognize it even when in an allegory like this.
      One thing I would Like to add to your brilliant synopsis is something that I found intriguing, and would Like to know what you think??
      No one else in the film ever interacts with Maddie. Even though Maddie talks about her parents we never see them. This just hit me,... Owen watched the TV show with Maddie in the basement,... until she moved away, and then we see him watching the TV show in the basement.
      Could Maddie be Owen's inner self? The conversations between Owen and Maddie sound like Owen trying to talk himself into realizing they are transgender. The call by Maddie for him to " run away with her." seems Like ..." cut off your family and live a genuine life,...transition because staying here will suffocate and kill you."
      The grave is a metaphor... what do we call our old selves?? " deadname".
      OMG...edited to add the following. Owen beseeching Maddie to tell the police that she is alive because... " your mother thinks you are dead." For many of us, that is exactly how our parents think when we come out to them.... that their child " died".
      While I can understand that cis people may see this film and think it is about existing day after day afraid to live life, ... and understand it is tragic, I think that queer people will understand the true horror of continuing to live in the closet, after your egg has cracked (the bathroom scene ). I hope that the cis viewers revisit this film with these understandings in mind,... because if there ever was a film that in my opinion best expressed what our lives were like before transition, and for many continue to be, if they fear transition.... this is it.
      PS great catch on the Trans flag colors,...I did not see it but now.... I will definitely watch it again with your observations in mind.

    • @specificsoup
      @specificsoup 20 днів тому +1

      Interesting idea about Maddie, but what about her friend who interacts with her? I agree she’s very isolated otherwise but before her friend spread rumors about Maddie, we see them talking to each other

  • @laci2966
    @laci2966 Місяць тому +6

    Sleep Away Camp was always my go to when I had a sleep over. Purely to disturb the other kids who weren’t allowed to watch horror.

  • @joanietails
    @joanietails 17 днів тому +3

    Saw this tonight so of course I’m here now. I expected this to be a horror film, and I kept waiting for it to happen. The live wire scene is where I thought ok the movie is gonna start now, but it didn’t. I left the theater hating the film. The whole time watching I was trying to figure out if Owen was autistic, and if that was the plot. I missed all the trans references, but I did wonder if there was something more going on with the dress. Then I thought, were they both being sexually abused by their father figures? Owen’s dad seemed very concerned about what he was watching and when he caught him with his head in the tv the scene was ambiguous to me with the violent imagery of the dad standing behind Owen. The girl was fearful of her father and the scene where she leaves Owen in the basement could’ve gone several different ways. I thought maybe she left him down there because her dad was violating her (she had stated her mom didn’t care what she did). Then later when she is trying to jog Owen’s memory I thought maybe she was trying to get him to remember some sort of abuse, maybe that happened in the basement, and that the tv show was a mind escape from reality. I still don’t really know what the film was about lol but I did enjoy seeing the young Owen actor (he’s the kid from the Showtime series Let The Right One In) and he was the best part of the film. Thank you FishJelly for another great review.
    Also- why didn’t he take his sleeping bag off the floor and sleep on the couch? I get that he was feeling only half welcome, but that drove me nuts! lol
    Update- after reading some of the other comments, especially the one about the colors of the trans flag (duh, so obvious, I can’t believe I missed it!) it’s pretty clear that this is what Owen was dealing with. Yes, it’s possible Maddy was his female voice. So much going on, I guess this film is worth a second watch after all.

  • @rayname908
    @rayname908 Місяць тому +21

    The Pink Opaque is a Cocteau Twins compilation album of singles and best tracks from 1982-1985. Great songs

    • @Stress-Free-K
      @Stress-Free-K Місяць тому +2

      Nice ... a lil Cocteau Twins montage would have been a highlight and fight right in.

  • @AntsMovies
    @AntsMovies 22 дні тому +5

    The 7th grade version of justice smith looked NOTHING like him.

  • @js7dragon
    @js7dragon Місяць тому +9

    "I don't believe that you can take care of YOURSELF!" lmao I died

  • @beth-ek2oe
    @beth-ek2oe 22 дні тому +3

    Just when I thought I couldn’t love you more! You guys are the best. It was really touching hearing. You both share how your life story connected a little bit with the movie. Thanks for being vulnerable.

  • @chrisrepak4668
    @chrisrepak4668 25 днів тому +11

    I had episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark that haunted my memories and turned out to be cheesy when I rewatched them as an adult. I really think the effect wouldnt work if the audience knew the show as something cheesy first, from firsthand experience.

    • @matthewd773
      @matthewd773 25 днів тому +1

      Same thing with goosebumps

  • @mollyt1296
    @mollyt1296 Місяць тому +27

    "Rose McGowen is a trigger for me." Me too, Joseph!

    • @Lexmadison
      @Lexmadison Місяць тому +5

      Wait please provide me with context, I’m just curious

    • @MadailinBurnhope
      @MadailinBurnhope Місяць тому

      ​@@Lexmadison she's a TERF

    • @mollyt1296
      @mollyt1296 5 днів тому

      My issue with Rose, whom I used to be quite a fan of, is that she had some really awful takes on SA, and decided that she spoke for all victims, when she doesn't. What really did it though was her yelling at, and disrespecting a trans woman who attended one of her book signings, saying that because they were not a cis woman, that their trauma is invalid or "not the same." She went as far as to have this person removed from the bookstore. Her behavior towards this person was so unnecessarily hostile and bigoted that I can't understand why she has any audience at this point. I also personally think that someone who took a huge payoff years ago to keep quiet about what happened to her, only to hop on the me2 movement in what appears to be simply a move made to make her relevant again, is really disingenuous... She doesn't speak for all survivors of assault, and certainly doesn't speak for me.

  • @dante340
    @dante340 Місяць тому +8

    I thought Maddy looked a lot like a young Winona Ryder in many of the scenes lol

  • @nicholaspruitt9032
    @nicholaspruitt9032 Місяць тому +15

    Is that a Grace Jones tee shirt on Nick? Love it! Remember her in Boomerang? Classic.

  • @christopherpenny7796
    @christopherpenny7796 29 днів тому +15

    Thats so funny, my favorite parts of the movie were the soundtrack:
    _ Taper by Maria BC
    _ Psychic Wound by King Woman
    _ Claw Machine by Sloppy Janes
    Very interesting concept , i think the director and/or writer needs a creative partner to help them flesh out their ideas more and improve the pacing of the movie.

  • @user-ud8cs1dv3p
    @user-ud8cs1dv3p Місяць тому +10

    XFiles plus Saved by the Bell??? Hell yes, please.

  • @jamescook4116
    @jamescook4116 22 дні тому +4

    I thought this was a very honest review. The film is ambitious but misses the mark.

  • @nopunditintended99
    @nopunditintended99 Місяць тому +25

    This TV didn’t glow for me either.

  • @stevetayler9518
    @stevetayler9518 Місяць тому +7

    09:57
    Joseph’s face after the mention of Jordan Catalano 😂

  • @MrOiManDudeGuy
    @MrOiManDudeGuy 24 дні тому +2

    I quite liked the pink opaque, it is a bit tedious and dry and very slow but it elicited such specific feelings, thoughts and memories and was overall a very interesting, good-looking well-shot and well-framed movie, but I also think the trailer gave away too much. I’m kinda with Joseph on Justice Smith, I wanna like him but he doesn’t quite do it for me. But he was as good an actor as you could get for a role like this

  • @YHoll
    @YHoll 22 дні тому +2

    I definitely want to see this movie again someday. I feel like there were a lot concepts. Some I understood and some I didn’t notice until listening to y’all or reading the comments. I loved the movie over all thougg

  • @NathanielAhart
    @NathanielAhart Місяць тому +6

    I completely agree with you guys, though I think I liked it a little bit more than both of you! The technicals are impeccable, but the second half kind of lost me lol. Might go see this again in wide release, great review guys!

  • @angelorossowrites
    @angelorossowrites Місяць тому +3

    Love the shirt Nick! And the review guys.

  • @JohnKyle-iu4lk
    @JohnKyle-iu4lk 11 днів тому +1

    A reference to Taste of Cherry wasn't expected today. I told my friends the Pink Opaque was So Weird if directed by Lynch.

  • @Almasays
    @Almasays 11 днів тому +1

    Appreciate the message of it, but I felt like the director was so in love with their central allegory that the rest of the film suffered. By the time the story really got going, I hadn’t developed any connection or care for the characters and was taken out of the movie so many times by the directorial choices. It felt like a discrete set of music videos connected by flat exposition that went on for far too long at points.

  • @maryblasingame4083
    @maryblasingame4083 25 днів тому +4

    I really enjoyed it but do agree that there were some parts that just didn’t connect all the way. Overall I enjoyed the design and story just wish it was a little more fleshed out. The music truly was fabulous, the soundtrack has been on repeat for me ever since I heard Caroline Polacheck made “Starburned and Unkissed” for it.

  • @chrishenderson7233
    @chrishenderson7233 Місяць тому +5

    Just watched this film last night. Went into it blind, not having seen the trailer or knowing anything about it. 😂 needless to say, im happy yall feel pretty much the same way i do

    • @aleksnekrasov987
      @aleksnekrasov987 Місяць тому +1

      So… is this a yay or nay from you?

    • @jamescook4116
      @jamescook4116 22 дні тому +2

      Had the same experience. I knew nothing about this film. I was so genuinely confused as to what the film was aiming for that I was asking strangers who had just seen the film their thoughts. The aesthetics are great but it is a muddled mess to a large degree aside from that.

    • @chrishenderson7233
      @chrishenderson7233 22 дні тому

      @@aleksnekrasov987 i would say the film wasnt for me, so a nay from me. But i do know it has done something significant for those i went to see the movie with. And they explained to me why it did something for them.

  • @smithtown00
    @smithtown00 Місяць тому +4

    Have you guys watched Baby Reindeer? Would love to hear your thoughts.

  • @carlgrimeseyepatch27
    @carlgrimeseyepatch27 21 день тому +1

    i love seeing indie stuff like this on movie screens HOWEVER i fell asleep during the monologue and feel like missed the POINT… did I? It wasn’t my fav but i want more movies that push boundaries of what we expect movies to be

  • @whitebread940
    @whitebread940 21 день тому +1

    I love weird movies but My God I haven’t watched one that was interesting or I enjoyed in awhile. Thanks for watching and reviewing so I don’t waste my time.

  • @nalian.italian.
    @nalian.italian. Місяць тому +3

    Nice review!
    Have you guys watched The Wailing 2016 Korean horror?.
    ❤❤.

  • @santan546
    @santan546 14 днів тому +1

    U guys seem like we would be good friends. -- seems like all the movies I’ve watched , then check your channel , - u guys made a review on - and we always seem to have the same opinion.
    It’s refreshing to watch ur videos and hear how we get the same out of all these movies.
    Love you guys
    Thanks for your reviews 👍🏼😉
    Especially this one
    Also-- Loved: the worst hair list 😂🤣
    Ps- that shirt is hot as hell-😳😍 where can I find one ???

  • @heymistercarter.
    @heymistercarter. Місяць тому +7

    This film seems like it could be pretty polarizing. For me, I’m on the pole that loves it. It’s actually between this and Hundreds of Beavers for my favorite film of the year so far. I found this one to be a pretty unique film that I haven’t seen anything like before.

  • @2120musiclover
    @2120musiclover Місяць тому +12

    Justice Smith is great in Detective Pikachu

  • @vincem2759
    @vincem2759 Місяць тому +4

    Love the grace jones shirt

  • @MissTraeHarris
    @MissTraeHarris Місяць тому +12

    I’m a writer/actor and I can’t understand why soo many adults, so many of my peers even are stuck making films about teenagers that’s aren’t actually teenagers… it makes me cringe so hard

    • @zlobna_bulka
      @zlobna_bulka Місяць тому +3

      because teenagers aren't such good actors?

    • @MissTraeHarris
      @MissTraeHarris Місяць тому +5

      Not necessarily, i think the content is actually too mature for them but still features them… very much the vibe of Euphoria and shows like that

  • @esoteric76
    @esoteric76 Місяць тому +7

    I honestly don’t know how Nick sat through this a second time. The movie was so unbelievably boring. The little dialogue we get is just basically repeated over and over again. Saw this at a packed theater at Lincoln Center and half the audience was asleep when the lights came up. Loved your review, but you couldn’t pay me to watch this again.

  • @bimavision810
    @bimavision810 Місяць тому +7

    The song when they was at the bar made me feel like that’s what the whole movie was about but definitely a lot of Ideas that diddnt get clarified and the narration was terrible it just seemed like they did not have the budget for what they where trying to convey and it fell short like a straight airball don’t waste your money… this is like Donnie darko sipping on lean slow… 🤪

  • @Stress-Free-K
    @Stress-Free-K Місяць тому +5

    My reoccuring thought was ... please make it end. Why won't this movie end???

  • @peanutbuttergoblin7129
    @peanutbuttergoblin7129 Місяць тому +4

    Awesome review. Not an awesome movie

  • @captain07234
    @captain07234 Місяць тому +15

    I have to agree with Joseph 2.5 stars. The two central performances were uninteresting and uncompelling and Schoenbrun needs a co writer to help flesh out their ideas.

  • @aaron.ward.
    @aaron.ward. Місяць тому +12

    There seems to be an increasing number of films where the entire point is "it's a metaphor!" and then not really much beyond that.

    • @christianobryant5768
      @christianobryant5768 26 днів тому +1

      Exactly how I felt with Beau is afraid but that movie is so crazy you can at least appreciate the attempt of it.

    • @AGamingEntity
      @AGamingEntity 24 дні тому +1

      I mean a movie can be "it's a metaphor" if it's done well, good example is Synecdoche New York

    • @AB-uz8sq
      @AB-uz8sq 19 днів тому +2

      the movie is not a metaphor. the movie is a very direct communicaton of the directors experience as a trans person.

  • @SASHAMIRANDAA
    @SASHAMIRANDAA Місяць тому

    Where can we see this film?

    • @aleksnekrasov987
      @aleksnekrasov987 Місяць тому

      It’s playing at my local Alamo Drafthouse. Maybe you have one too. But I’m sure you can find something else nearby probably

  • @fi8urefilms959
    @fi8urefilms959 Місяць тому

    The Sloppy Jane scene broke me.

  • @addictstatic
    @addictstatic Місяць тому +4

    All the bright places was a good justice smith movie

    • @maryblasingame4083
      @maryblasingame4083 25 днів тому

      I haven’t seen the movie but a tear stained copy of the book worked it’s way through my friend group when I was a teen

  • @davidkelsall6164
    @davidkelsall6164 Місяць тому +4

    Pity. I really enjoyed Schoenbrun's first film.

    • @alobo9937
      @alobo9937 Місяць тому +1

      Mee too!

    • @fi8urefilms959
      @fi8urefilms959 Місяць тому +2

      Good chance you’ll enjoy it these guys shit on their debut

    • @davidkelsall6164
      @davidkelsall6164 Місяць тому

      @@fi8urefilms959 Ah, good to know.

  • @OxChiquitaXo
    @OxChiquitaXo Місяць тому +2

    Are you guys reviewing Tarot?

  • @user-if4ux9io8q
    @user-if4ux9io8q Місяць тому

    Why haven’t you watched Till?

  • @christianobryant5768
    @christianobryant5768 26 днів тому +9

    Movie theater was awkwardly silent an waiting in the chairs after the credits lol. This movie made “Beau is afraid” feel like a short film an not in a good way.

    • @AutumnOddity
      @AutumnOddity 25 днів тому +1

      I saw Beau is afraid twice, first on edibles, and loved every second of it

    • @christianobryant5768
      @christianobryant5768 23 дні тому +2

      @@AutumnOddity amazing movie to b on drugs for lol

    • @AJLovesMC12
      @AJLovesMC12 22 дні тому +1

      Same here! People were glued to their seats after the credits rolled on, and I was freaked out ngl! Like was I trapped in the Pink Opaque as well?!🤯😂

  • @captainstrangiato961
    @captainstrangiato961 Місяць тому

    I love this movie to death but it’s definitely not for everyone. I grew up lonely using the internet and watching UA-cam in the 2000s, and something about the completely bizarre awkwardness and monologues perfectly captures this feeling in a way most films just can’t. It feels like someone who wrote WattPad stories or read Homestuck as a kid. The Lynch YA point is hilarious and I think related to these kinds of feelings and aesthetics. In many ways the scene with “Claw Machine” feels like the “The Nightingale” scene from Twin Peaks or “Blue Velvet” scene from Blue Velvet.

  • @alexanderlafosta6035
    @alexanderlafosta6035 Місяць тому +3

    "Maddie looks like she doesn't sleep." lol

  • @AceZachrocks123
    @AceZachrocks123 Місяць тому +4

    Sad y'all didn't like it that much I couldn't stop thinking about it since i left SXSW and i just kept reading more into it and have grown to love it. But I can see what you wouldn't enjoy in it. Great review still guys. ❤

  • @SugarPills111
    @SugarPills111 Місяць тому +5

    I loved we are all going to the world fair so I can't wait to check this out

  • @RyanABXY
    @RyanABXY 13 днів тому

    I think most of your issues are all intentional. It's very much like a tv show. Actors playing characters of ages that make no sense, actors being replaced unexpectedly, plot lines like cancer just going away, time passing in seconds through montage or titles.. overly complicated backstories.. I feel like I'm rambling now but ya. It wasn't perfect but it was a high 4 stars for me.

  • @shantoreywilkins651
    @shantoreywilkins651 Місяць тому +1

    📺

  • @DetroitRed6
    @DetroitRed6 23 дні тому

    13:34 well damn..

  • @believer773
    @believer773 Місяць тому +3

    So far all the reviews I've seen of this have divided on age lines, the younger the reviewer the more they liked it. But none have been bad just ok-to rave

  • @RobotProphetsMoon
    @RobotProphetsMoon 18 днів тому

    This movies sounds kind of like Channel Zero Season 1: Candle Cove, but not as interesting

  • @addictstatic
    @addictstatic Місяць тому +2

    Sounds like a shattered microwaved version of lost highway

  • @bimavision810
    @bimavision810 Місяць тому +1

    I fux w justice since the get down but this was NOT it

  • @MadailinBurnhope
    @MadailinBurnhope Місяць тому +6

    I loved We're All Going to the World's Fair

    • @MadailinBurnhope
      @MadailinBurnhope Місяць тому

      I totally agree about Rose McGowan, eww

    • @MadailinBurnhope
      @MadailinBurnhope Місяць тому

      might it work better for someone with shared transfemme trauma? (me lol)

  • @cedriccrawford4231
    @cedriccrawford4231 18 днів тому

    Ah yes! No matter what the genre, there is always room for identity politics/representation!... Hard pass

  • @alobo9937
    @alobo9937 Місяць тому +4

    I wanted this to be good 😢

  • @isaiahallen6139
    @isaiahallen6139 28 днів тому +1

    Glowing chest ending, thanks, wont be watching this 😂 sounds borning asf.

  • @JohnSmith-wi4xo
    @JohnSmith-wi4xo Місяць тому +1

    5:30

  • @LilDew
    @LilDew 20 днів тому

    Way too artsy fartsy in a bad way

  • @puspavelai8353
    @puspavelai8353 Місяць тому

    I feel it's about escapism from the fear of not bonding over a death in the family, also, being "influenced" to watch a show that's unsuitable. But, the plot is flimsy enough for the hairstyle choices to be criticized, so that's a negative!

  • @macebluemoon369
    @macebluemoon369 Місяць тому

    Nick I enjoy your shirt. Who is that woman? Is she a celebrity? Also Joseph I'm not the biggest fan of Rose McGowan or Anne Hathaway for that matter. So I concur with you on the former actress. Despite Rose exposing Weinstein she is crazy and attention seeking.

  • @TheInstantClassic86
    @TheInstantClassic86 28 днів тому +4

    It was the most pretentious movie I’ve ever seen.

  • @robbielex
    @robbielex Місяць тому +4

    I'm gonna see this for the simple and admittedly shallow reason that I feel BLP is one of the most gorgeous humans on this planet.

  • @bees.857
    @bees.857 Місяць тому +6

    Googled it and saw Fred Durst. That's never a good sign. Unless it's 'The Fanatic' which is one of the funniest films I've ever seen.

    • @CyranoForever101
      @CyranoForever101 Місяць тому +2

      He's barely in the movie

    • @bees.857
      @bees.857 Місяць тому +1

      @@CyranoForever101 I had already assumed that was the case

  • @FishareFriendsNotFood972
    @FishareFriendsNotFood972 Місяць тому +5

    What a grungy little wierdo of a movie

  • @KhurtKhave669
    @KhurtKhave669 17 днів тому

    Its a direct ripoff of the creepypasta Candle Cove. Syfy channel put it in their Channel Zero series.

    • @AJ-qq8jo
      @AJ-qq8jo 8 днів тому +1

      It's definitely inspired by Candle Cove and the director isn't hiding that. Calling it a direct ripoff is insane. Get real.