150 Word Review: 'I Saw The TV Glow' (2024)
150 Word Review: 'I Saw The TV Glow' (2024)
Twin peeks
There is a liminal space between reality and fantasy, a dreamlike neverland not unlike the psychic plane in The Pink Opaque, I Saw The TV Glow’s fake 90s show about two teenagers with matching ghost tattoos who fight evil monsters. Our heroes meet on the psychic plane, an alternate reality where those far away are suddenly close.
In I Saw The TV Glow, Owen, and Maddy, high school misfits, share the same pop culture obsession. Everything makes sense on the other side of the screen. This is a poignant fable for anyone who has hidden inside art and found their people.
Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun casts a spell. The real world is dim and claustrophobic, briefly illuminated by electric colors: pinks, purples, blues. Justice Smith's Owen is a profoundly tragic character, a human anchor slowly falling. Some of us escape and become who we truly are, and some of us don't.
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