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Courtney: Hello everyone and welcome back. My name is Courtney. I am here with my spouse, Royce, and together we are The Ace Couple. And I’m really excited to talk about a movie that we watched recently. You may have heard of it, it is called I Saw the TV Glow. Going into it as with most media, I always try to proceed in with as minuscule information as possible, so when I went in to watch it, all I knew was that it is very lgbtq+. Just broadly queer. I refrained from seeing any sort of reviews or explicit commentary on it. And I was told it was very, very good. And, oh young man, was it ever? I loved it. In proof, I just pulled up before recording this– I just wanted to see, like, another scene again so I could hold it really fresh in my memory. And I was crying again, not even seeing the entire movie or the context around it. It’s pretty. It’s such a fascinating movie. And, as of now, if you carry out look up a lot of commentary on it, the most common sort of queer lens that you’ll see that investigation through is the transitioned experience, which makes matchless sense to me. That is very clearly enjoy the predo
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Few movie-watching experiences of tardy have been as transportive as I Saw the TV Glow. Jane Schoenbrun’s second film several steps up from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2022), which played like an partially realized thought about our media habits. This one by contrast, with its blues and violets and edge-of-midnight ambience and dearth of laugh lines and plenty of stricken closeups, evokes David Lynch’s Inland Empire and, greater, Twin Peaks: The Return. Directors from Nicholas Ray to David Cronenberg, among others, have made films about dysphoria; Schoenbrun’s is the most fully realized, an immersion in which Owen (played by Ian Foreman as a juvenile man and as an adult with tremulous precision by Justice Smith) advance, thanks to a ninth grader named Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine), a relationship with a ’90s TV show called The Pink Opaque that triggers varying responses to how their gender breaks unseal — what Schoenbrun has called the “egg crack.”
The first line in The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says” is “I’ve come to hate my body.” I Saw the TV Glow About halfway through “I Saw the TV Glow,” the setting in a scene changes from a grocery store parking lot to a gay prevent. Director Jane Schoenbrun introduces this recent location by inserting a diegetic show by Phoebe Bridgers and Sloppy Jane. But, for the audience viewing the film, this segment essentially functions as a music video, and it seems to be a jarring, unconventional option for any motion picture to make as it deliberately breaks the story’s flow. But it works. And it works because nothing about “I Saw the TV Glow” is conventional. It exists within a long tradition of queer films that push boundaries and experiment with how a feature can look and make one perceive. By positioning itself as a horror film, “I Saw the TV Glow” can take superiority of this tradition by being as unapologetically weird as it desires to be. "Lynchian” is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but it actually feels appropriate here. Enjoy much of the work of scribe and director David Lynch, the clip doesn’t follow a standard story structure, it doesn’t illustrate anything that begs to be explained and it certainly uses odd, even disco Watching Jane Schoenbrun’s second feature, I Saw the TV Glow, is a theatrical experience unlike any other. The We’re All Going to the World’s Fair director follows the friendship between two teenagers in the ’90s, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Owen (Justice Smith), and their deep adoration of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer-meets-Are You Afraid of The Dark? faux television show, The Pink Opaque. But when their reality begins to blur with the show, they start to question their identity. After my first viewing, soaked in tears, I felt excavated inside-out. Subsequent viewings only added to that feeling, that I was seeing something that spoke so boisterously and purposefully for me. I’m not alone—a myriad of other people who also identify in the spectrum of the LGBTQ community have felt similarly upon seeing the film. It’s a sentiment that Schoenbrun, Lundy-Paine, and Smith have already been receiving before TV Glow’s May 3 release. “I’m getting this a lot and I’m definitely not just getting this from transitioned folks, a lot of lgbtq+ folks, and people who had an emotional relationship with media in a formative time thaCOLUMN: ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ beautifully portrays the genderqueer experience
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