I Saw The TV Glow
A24 (2024)
The trailer for I Saw The TV Glow played a few times before movies that I saw at my local Regal Cinema, but they never ended up showing the film. In fact, no theaters in my area carried it. The closest I could find was an AMC that was over an hour away. For most movies, I would have just said the hell with it and waited to catch it on streaming or home video, but I tend to really enjoy A24 films and the trailer did it's job on me.
This is not a movie that's going to appeal to everyone. In fact, I can only think of a handful of people who I'd recommend it to, but I thought it was incredible.
Brigette Lundy-Paine, who co-stars in the film with Justice Smith, has called this film an allegory for being transgender. I can totally see it, but the vibe I picked up was more about how time speeds up as you get older and how people tend to search for a higher purpose to prove to themselves that there has to be more to life than this. However you interpret this story, it's presented in a way that you can't look away from.
