Screens

A place to talk about movies, TV and videos on Farcaster.

Wife is randomly on a 1930s-1950s movie binge. Clark Gable, Cary Grant etc. 

Something feels very dead about that world. Like truly dead and gone and buried and dessicated in a way it didn’t 30y ago. The movies feel like museum pieces.

I think because they no longer represent living memory. All adults in those movies are dead. Born like 1900-10.

And that world clearly seems pointed towards a future that strikes me as quite unappealing but clearly others are nostalgic for 🤔. You get this same sense of orientation-towards-museum-futures from 1960s movies too.

The world we’re in feels like one that that was first pointed to by 1970s movies. Not surprising, given that computing, the internet, and space flight had emerged by then.

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Have you done The Philadelphia Story yet?

Wife is doing it, I’m just catching glimpses. Not really into that era myself.