{"id":43793,"date":"2024-05-13T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43793"},"modified":"2024-05-13T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:51:59","slug":"i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/13\/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"I Saw the TV Glow (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now In Expanded Release in Theaters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think most of the reason why Jill Schoenbrun\u2019s horror drama has clicked with so many people is that many audiences can relate to the horrors of getting older. The whole idea of getting older means that you bid farewell to what was, and remain on course what what\u2019s ahead. Some of us are stuck in a position where we can\u2019t say goodbye and this has caused many to re-think their whole lives in general. This is essentially the premise for \u201cI Saw the TV Glow\u201d which is a movie that begins primarily like a Creepypasta but takes on a whole other meaning by the time it comes to a twisted close.<\/p>\n

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Socially inept and struggling teenager, Owen finds an unlikely friend in an angsty outcast at school, Maddy who is obsessed with a supernatural TV show titled\u00a0\u201cThe Pink Opaque.\u201d After meeting for the first time, Maddy convinces Owen to come over to her house that Saturday to watch\u00a0\u201cThe Pink Opaque\u201d\u00a0at 10:30 p.m., a time long past his curfew at home. Together, in the mysterious environment of\u00a0Maddy\u2019s\u00a0dark, carpeted living room, they indulge in the\u00a0show\u2019s\u00a0enticing paranormal world and escape the throes of their less-than-stellar reality.\u00a0Years later, Maddy disappears unexpectedly, and\u00a0\u201cThe Pink Opaque\u201d\u00a0is canceled.<\/p>\n

Director Jill Schoenbrun creates this mesmerizing often dream like land that feels like reality but kind of isn\u2019t. Justice Smith\u2019s Owen walks around in this purple tinted haze that often feels like the mid-way point between adulthood and adolescence. Although he\u2019s stuck in this small dead end town, he\u2019s always looking down one end of his life and facing what is staring him dead in the face. What can only really help him cope is his obsession with the series \u201cPunk Opaque\u201d which director Jill Schoenbrun clearly models after \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer.\u201d Owen is only able to live his true life and be accepted whenever venturing in to the world of the \u201cPink Opaque.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But once he\u2019s left its comforts and nurturing, he\u2019s reduced back into the amorphous purple cloud where he\u2019s never quite awake, and time seems to slip by faster than anyone ever notices. Justice Smith\u2019s own unraveling is so similar to Alex Wolff\u2019s in \u201cHereditary,\u201d where he\u2019s confronted with so many situations beyond his own understanding and can never truly understand what has happened to him, even after it\u2019s happened. Smith\u2019s performance matches the creeping menace of Schoenbrun\u2019s nightmarish hazy film, offering up a complex and truly gut wrenching turn as a protagonist battling with his identity.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s ultimately attempting to seize some semblance before time runs out. Director Schoenbrun builds on truly volatile themes and About the innocence of youth, the love and enthusiasm of exploration and how that can tend to die and dull with the passing of age. \u201cI Saw the TV Glow\u201d centers itself so much on the horrors of embracing our own identity, of growing up and how fast it all seems to whizz by before our very eyes. One minute we\u2019re on the precipice of discovering who we really want to be, only to way up years later still stuck in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Saw the TV Glow\u201d may not be for everyone, but I loved the way it got under my skin and delved in to themes about fandom, identity, and often looming specter of old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now In Expanded Release in Theaters. I think most of the reason why Jill Schoenbrun\u2019s horror drama has clicked with so many people is that many audiences can relate to the horrors of getting older. The whole idea of getting older means that you bid farewell to what was, and remain on course what what\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[225,302,477,703,1087],"class_list":["post-43793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-coming-of-age","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43797,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43793\/revisions\/43797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}