Pump Up The VolumeninjasuperstarJune 13 2005, 06:35:22 UTC
It's still one of my favorite movies. I felt exactly like Mark when I was in high school. In some ways, that passive aggressive shy madness never really goes away. The whole film is a wonderful fantasy of being found out, of being pursued for being shy. Ah, memories.
Re: Pump Up The VolumeninjasuperstarJune 13 2005, 21:52:03 UTC
I understand how you would be into the film at this time in your life. The film empathizes with much of what it means to be a teenager as well as beginning to leave one's teen years. It also makes me understand one important lesson: We will not know what it's like for our children to grow up. We can't know. Whe one generation comes to represent the authority figures for the next generation, something is lost; that is a fact that few parents can bridge and still remain actual parents. Even Mark's father is described as a young rebel by his wife who was always fighting the system and now IS the system. He's even a cool dad in a way, but that cannot make him able to understand his son better.
The film reminds me of the old Buggles song, "Video Killed the Radio Star": "In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind, we've gone too far." There's a reason why that was the first video to play on MTV. It has a timelessness that Pump Up the Volume likewise captures.
Re: Pump Up The VolumecwankgurlJune 13 2005, 22:40:08 UTC
Well put. What was interesting about the movie to me in the first place was that my mom was the one to suggest it to me. It's always weird when she understands something that means so much to me when it comes to music or movies or anything that has to do with a very generalized teen demographic because whenever it becomes something personal she's so oblivious and frustrated. I mean, I'm sure it's different when it's your own kids you're dealing with but she always turns into this whole different person. It sucks that that changes once we turn eighteen, it's like the all the growing and the years building up to it don't matter now that one's reached the point of "adulthood."
Re: Pump Up The VolumeninjasuperstarJune 13 2005, 23:04:59 UTC
You weren't rambling at all. Just understand that the weirdness you feel when she "gets" something about you is the reason why we have arts other than language. Sometimes people cannot say something, so that write it down. Sometimes people cannot do either, so they suggest an already created work of art to speak for them.
I still cannot imagine how a parent knows when and what knowledge to communicate to their child, teen, or adult. For the most part, teens would rather discover things than be told, I think. And even though she may have known that you would appreciate the movie, she may not know exactly what you appreciate about it, what you are thinking, and so on.
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The film reminds me of the old Buggles song, "Video Killed the Radio Star": "In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind, we've gone too far." There's a reason why that was the first video to play on MTV. It has a timelessness that Pump Up the Volume likewise captures.
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Blech, pardon me. [/silly teen rambling]
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I still cannot imagine how a parent knows when and what knowledge to communicate to their child, teen, or adult. For the most part, teens would rather discover things than be told, I think. And even though she may have known that you would appreciate the movie, she may not know exactly what you appreciate about it, what you are thinking, and so on.
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