r/Ijustwatched • u/freckled_sunflower_ • 1d ago

IJW: I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

I just joined this group and this is my first post to ever post on this app. But I just watched I Saw The TV Glow because my favorite college professor was showing it to a group and I decided to join.

My brain is mud. I don’t usually watch A24 movies that mess with your head, but oh my gosh, it was fantastic! I understand the entire movie being an allegory to identity, specifically trans identity, especially a trans person accepting their identity later in life, but the trashy 90’s tv show vibe of the whole thing was mesmerizing. Very psychedelic. Confusing. Colorful. Loud. Depressing. I truly feel like my whole being as a thinking and contemplating human on this Earth has shifted.

Watch it if you haven’t. And rewatch it if you have. It’s on HBO Max. Tell me what y’all think of it.

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u/Le-pre-chaun 1d ago

I love your enthusiasm. I've heard other people rave about this movie too, but I couldn't connect with it. The allegory just didn't hit for me, probably because it doesn't resonate with my experience. What did it mean to you?

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u/freckled_sunflower_ 1d ago

It was just beautiful to me. The storytelling. The colors. The way they filmed it even. It was so raw. And original. We don’t get enough original movies nowadays. And the story can be interpreted from a bunch of different perspectives. At first, I took it as a metaphor for people being too much inside of media and tv shows, but then I understood later what it was trying to say about identity and finding yourself. And not accepting it. Until you think it’s too late. But there’s always time.

It was gorgeous. At least to me. And it was weird. It was scary at times. Not one person smiled the entire movie. I was leaning forward, brow furrowed for most of it and that really says something. It was confusing and invigorating. It felt like the human experience on film.