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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

      I know the aesthetic and source material are very different but I feel like the themes and ideas in WandaVision, especially after the last episode, remind me very powerfully of a Miyazaki film

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

      The juxtaposition of incredibly heavy raw emotion and childlike whimsy, right next to each other The way Wanda's desperate desire to escape into fantasy is shown in all its dysfunction but we never lose our sympathy with her, the beauty of her dream

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

      This is such a delicate concept and such an easy one to fuck up and turn into an annoying morality play A huge part of making it work is how every aspect of the production design and cinematography has to be spot on Westview never stops being a beautiful place

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          Even in the 2000s episode where there aren't period details to give it away you can always instantly tell when we've swapped from the real world to the sitcom Westview is brighter than the real world, more saturated, framed more artfully

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          The 2010s episode made this point even better, I think It captures the tone of a Michael Schur sitcom so well This bizarre double consciousness that the things they're talking about are objectively deeply troubling but the way the show is shot puts it all at an ironic remove

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          It's "not that kind of show", it's a sleepy small town like Pawnee where bad things happen but nothing is ever TOO serious, no matter what drama is going on inside outside it's always a beautiful day

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          (Vision trying to "wake himself up" being like "Why am I still sitting here talking to you people?" and storming out of the mockumentary was so good)

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          Anyway I also think it's really really important that, like in Miyazaki's best films, the horror and the trauma and the suffering are given room to really hit the viewer It doesn't hold back on it, it doesn't let you judge Wanda for "overreacting"

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          I dunno, the most obvious antecedent for this show is the movie Pleasantville - starring the original cinematic Spider-Man! - and like Pleasantville's message was just way too fucking glib, is the thing

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          They pioneered the gimmick and they played the gimmick really well but it didn't transcend the gimmick feeling like a gimmick and it's because they set it up as such an easy dunk on 1950s conservatism and whatnot

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          The ending of Pleasantville is obviously inevitable because the preachy moral is a carefully rigged strawman "The real world is better than TV! TV isn't real!" Yeah no shit Dad I know that

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          It just did not establish the motivation nearly hard enough for Tobey Maguire's character It was so casually dismissive of the idea of escapism and "comfort characters" and enabling delusions and all of that mess It just summarized it all as calling him weak

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          Tobey has a rough life the way all of us have rough lives and he just wants to sit in his safe monochrome universe posting uwu chats for eternity but his sister, whose life is just as rough, wants him to WAKE UP TO REALITY and she ends up 100% correct

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          And that's boring, and it's smug, and it's forgoing the chance at actual drama Did you ever think that maybe the people so desperate for escapism actually do know what they're escaping from? They're not all naive, stupid kids

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 26

          They've been in the real world and they've seen that gritty harsh reality you're so enamored of - they've seen some real af shit you've never fucking imagined - and they want to escape it and hide from it BECAUSE IT FUCKING SUCKS

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