Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions!

• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Copying this from another conversation about it:

  I saw the Tv glow is horror for queer people. If ur cishet it won’t hit the same

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  It’s about failing to recognize yourself as trans an the inherent terror of living in a body that feels like a prison. So if you can’t relate to that the message is probably lost

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m a cishet and having grown up with quite a restrictive and repressive upbringing, the themes of “well who am I really?” and feeling like your environment and inability to discover who you truly are is slowly suffocating are definitely themes from the movie that resonated with me.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s a totally fair point. I just recall people leaving the theater going “what the hell was that all about?” Lol

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    The other main character advocates for committing suicide as the answer to their predicament. All bodies feel like a prison. They get old and ache some don’t provide the right chemicals or their brains hurt them. It’s not a problem only belonging to the trans community and the other main character seems predatory while the main character is beyond reach and does absolutely nothing the whole film.

    I can relate to the message but the message was bad from my perspective and the execution not better. Maybe because it’s so incredibly pointed that I don’t get it but that doesn’t make it any better that it’s for a specific audience and everyone else is left stranded. I got the message I just thought it poorly faced it.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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      i didn’t see it as suicide at all but rather as accepting the death of their former self. Trans people refer to their old identity as a dead name after all. 'sides rebirth is a common trope in a hero’s journey wherein you come out of hell (the ground) changed for the better

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