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The Legend

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“i knew i needed to come back and save you”

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I saw the tv glow is crazy bc it’s a movie that genuinely makes you watch how your life could fall apart. Makes you watch how heavily repression can affect your life and how dangerous and sad it can be. But at the same time it’s like “hey, if you’re still alive there is still time, so keep going.”

I’ve genuinely never watched a movie that has given me so much sadness, but let’s me find a sense of hope, no matter how bittersweet, within that devastation.

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the way that in the pink opaque, tara and isabel only met in the first episode and then only communicated through their psychic link throughout the rest of the series and didn't see each other in person and how owen watched their first episode of the pink opaque with maddy but then after that was only able to watch it through the tapes maddy left them in the dark room, not even giving them to owen in person

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i saw the tv glow is like. your childhood queer best friend got out of your town and got to live their better life as themself. your queer friend got out of your town and killed themselves because their delusions won them over. no matter your interpretation, you never see them again.

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thinking about "i even got a family of my own. i love them more than anything :/" with the tortured expression on owen's face and the fact that we never meet this family because they're not real in a way that matters. the LG TV product placement during this scene was almost distracting, but then owen lifts the box so the phrase "life's good" is in frame, and you can see so clearly that life is not good for this person fhjdkfnf

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cries & dies forever because i saw the tv glow is right. there is still time. its never too late to claw yr way out of the grave. its never too late to start living as who you deserve to live as. its never too late to scream & beg & cry & get to the other side of yr anguish. your heart is still beating. theres still time. theres still time.

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Do you remember The Pink Opaque?🩷

Inspired by this:

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I needed to get this out before someone else got the idea

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the moment where. where she screams. screaming for help. i’m dying right now! screaming. and there’s no reaction at all. there’s nothing. it’s more devastating than judgment could be somehow. “i’m sorry. ignore me.” before she crumples and chokes. i’m never going to be okay again i think.

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another scorsese W

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When The Pink Opaque is on tv, it’s a different ratio aspect then the rest of the movie (i.e. the “real world” portions of the movie) and as you can see there is that black border on the sides indicating that it’s what’s being seen on tv. But when Isabel is being buried alive, it’s in the same ratio aspect as the “real world,” filling the whole screen, indicating that it’s not just what’s happening on tv but also in reality. Anyway I thought this was an interesting editing choice it kind of supports the idea that her death is real etc

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I saw the TV glow, too.

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i saw the tv glow is awesome bc its terrifying in a transgender "if i keep pushing this down and down and down i will be slowly letting myself die" way but also its even just scary as "a man in the moon traps you in a dimension out of time built to psychologically torture you with suburbia"

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Finally got around to watching I saw the tv glow and I’ve had an incomprehensible sense of dread ever since 🙂‍↕️

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i just. when owen tried on isabel's magic dress and maddy blushed and smiled and hid in her hand. the intimacy in how she drew the symbol on the back of owen's neck. an out lesbian showing those feelings for a closeted, pre-transition trans girl who doesn't even seem to know that's true of herself yet. knowing her before she knows herself. don't speak to me i'm literally dust on the floor