Stranger Things
Stranger Things:I loved it! It was beyond pastiche-it’s as if the creators went back in time and filmed a previously unknown Stephen King story in the early 80s, using current-quality special effects but . (There’s even an episode called “The Body,” as well as a Stephen King reference in the dialogue, which is a little more Stephen King now than Stephen King then, but then again it’s not really his story.) The pitch-perfect 80s credits are not kidding, is what I’m saying. Along with “The Body,” Firestarter is the other most obvious predecessor, given the importance of a superpowered little girl whose powers resulted from government drug experiments on college students and whose attempted exploitation creates serious dangers. There's also a missing little boy whose friends go in search of him, using bikes and walkie-talkies and, in one notable instance, a slingshot.
The actress playing the role does a great job of portraying almost feral terror; in general, the child actors both look exactly like the kids that would have been cast in the 80s and do a good job. Winona Ryder is also strong, though whatever Hollywood’s cruelties to women forced her to do to her face has frozen it, and she doesn’t particularly look like the worn-down, small-town single mother of a nearly college-age child. It’s particularly notable because her male counterpart, the sheriff, is allowed to look crappy and soft. The teen love triangle doesn’t play out in the expected way, which is good because it allows the girl an agency denied her when, as is more standard, the guy she thought she liked turns out to be a thoroughgoing jerk. She’s book smart, but also intelligent in other ways. The effects are appropriately creepy-I had to turn away from the screen a couple of times. There is a deer who’s been hit by a car.
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The actress playing the role does a great job of portraying almost feral terror; in general, the child actors both look exactly like the kids that would have been cast in the 80s and do a good job. Winona Ryder is also strong, though whatever Hollywood’s cruelties to women forced her to do to her face has frozen it, and she doesn’t particularly look like the worn-down, small-town single mother of a nearly college-age child. It’s particularly notable because her male counterpart, the sheriff, is allowed to look crappy and soft. The teen love triangle doesn’t play out in the expected way, which is good because it allows the girl an agency denied her when, as is more standard, the guy she thought she liked turns out to be a thoroughgoing jerk. She’s book smart, but also intelligent in other ways. The effects are appropriately creepy-I had to turn away from the screen a couple of times. There is a deer who’s been hit by a car.
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