Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 22, 2021It’s hard to find movies and shows that don’t go meta or otherwise subvert their parent genre tropes in some way these days. Every story has a fictional idea of “story” within that it is pointing to as not-real, implying it is real.210
Venkatesh Rao@vgrSometimes explicitly, as in lines like “this isn’t like the movies”1:22 AM · Sep 22, 20213 Likes