I Saw the TV Glow Movie - Personal Influences - “The film at its deepest level is about a queer journey towards self-discovery.”
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00:00 What about you do you like girls think that I like TV shows I
00:04 Saw the TV glow follows Owen and Maddie who are obsessed with this scary TV show called the big of it
00:17 Yeah, but it's way too scary for most kids
00:19 Eventually the show gets canceled and then shortly thereafter
00:25 Maddie disappears without a trace. I'm getting out of this town
00:29 Did you know that?
00:31 Owen is left in his hometown
00:34 To uncover the mystery of what the show actually meant to them. It was a TV show. Are you sure? That's all it was
00:42 The pink opaque it's kind of inspired by shows from my youth that I loved growing up. Are you afraid of the dark?
00:48 Goosebumps Buffy the Vampire Slayer the kind of show that could blow your mind or traumatize you for life
00:56 Starting I really wanted to make a movie about somebody like me growing up not really
01:02 Understanding myself and the context of where I was in the world and finding a lot of that through fiction and through TV. I
01:08 Don't even have my learner's permit yet
01:11 The film I think in its deepest level is about a queer
01:17 Journey towards self-discovery for those who want to dig into the mysteries and try to unravel them
01:23 I
01:25 Like girls, you know that right totally that's fine. Okay. I'm just making sure
01:31 You
01:33 (guitar music)
01:35 (static)