We're All Going To The World's Fair - Tumblr Posts

OKAY SO a week ago or sumn like that I saw this movie on amazon (js the cover) called 'I saw the TV glow' and so I looked at it and in my head I was like 'damn it'd be cool if alex G played songs in that, we're all going to the worlds fair vibes' AND ITS SO FUNNY BC THE NEXT DAY/NIGHT I WAS SEARCHING UP ALEX G AND IT ONE OF THE SEARCHES WAS 'alex g i saw the tv glow' WHICH IMPLIES HE MADE MUSIC FOR IT SO OBV I WAS FREAKING OUT LMAO, ANYWAY ITS SO MUCH FUNNIER BECAUSE WHEN I WATCHED IT (i watched it today, also its a really great movie with many meanings I would 100% reccomend if you are trans(im not) or have struggled with mental health issues or overcoming relationship/friendship obstacles n stuff) BECAUSE I LITERALLY FOUND OUT IT WAS MADE BY THE PEOPLE WHO MADE 'we're all going to the worlds fair' ANNYWAY LIKE ITS SO COOL N SUCH A COINCIDENCE?? THE POWER OF AN ALEX G FAN RAAAA SPOILERS ISH: Srsly though the movie is really great and it has alot of ways to be interpreted, I relate to it because I interpreted it to be like, afraid of what you are, knowing but not knowing and always questioning, always afraid and paranoid, dettached from reality and you have someone who knows, someone who has a way to escape and they offer you help, but youre so unsure of it, because you've been taught otherwise your entire life so you deny the chance you get to escape your own nightmare, and you keep looking back and eventually everything catches up to you and you just question it all, idk, thats how I interpret it, ME, personally. I know thats not the point but I feel like there can be many 'points.' I felt like the constellation scene was heavily metaphoric, I'm not gonna dive into it rn but def later. quotes I made "People are scared of death because they're not certain what'll happen after, but was there ever any certainty?" "People are like pool water late at night, some might dip their feet in, some might not, and if they do they might take them out or they might not, and if they leave them in eventually the pool water becomes warm. most of the time."

i saw the tv glow is officially one of my favorite movies HERE'S MY ANALYSIS.... OF COLOR!!!!! (spoilers)

okay so obviously it's a metaphor for being trans, yearning yet being so afraid to look inside yourself and change your life to be who you truly are duh

BUT.... I haven't seen anyone talk about the way colors are used, specifically pink and blue. Pink represents femininity/ acceptance of self or owen getting closer to the truth, the show is literally called the PINK opaque, the movie starts with a pink glow on his face ,he has a pink sleeping bag, he's wearing a pink sweater when asking maddy if he can sleepover isabelle's magic dress that owen wears, the markings on the back of their necks etc.

but blue is the denial of self, and his wardrobe for most of the movie is blue, the luna juice is blue, his room is blue THE HOUSE is blue, the cotton candy, after maddy disappears he's at this closed inflatable party place and it's all blue, there's a blue balloon floating in front of him, the happy birthday scene where he starts screaming the room is overwhelmingly blue in fact every work uniform he has is BLUE except for at the end when he cuts himself open it's a button up with blue pink and black splotches.

I don't think this has to be said but it's obviously the girl = pink and boy = blue thing to really show that's it's about being trans

To contrast this maddys wardrobe is mostly greys, blacks and whites this could show she's sure of herself.

edit : maddy cuts her hair after she comes back after she realizes she's tara to be shorter.. like tara's.

Id also like to point out the color scheme of the parachute, he's wearing blue in this. the parachute is also parallel the planetarium, a structure inside a structure, a temporary illusion like the midnight realm they're trapped in.

edit: wherever owen works its places that are active distractions and temporary illusions as well, the movie theater, party places, arcades all bright fun places filled with distractions to make you forget the outside world

guys i've already gone and watched this movie twice it's so GOOD.