Posts tagged Meddling Kids

Jump in the Line: Beetlejuice as American Cringe

Look, I didn’t think I had been gearing up to write about the Tim Burton movie Beetlejuice, but I’m really seeing that a lot of what I’ve been talking about fit into this movie, and I really must admit that it’s a fun movie. I recommend rewatching it if you get the chance. It’s only an hour and a half long. However, I stand by what I said about the movie previously: it is part of that genre I mentioned and labeled American Cringe. (cover image from “Dead Ink Apparel” https://deadinkapparel.storenvy.com/products/24311235-dont-tread-on-me-chuck)

Film, Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 10, 2021Beetlejuice, Tim Burton, American Cringe, Americana, Capitalist Realism, Film, Criticism, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Ophelia, Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantero, Horror Vanguard, Lolita Podcast Comments

Ex-Child Prodigies and Broken Promises: The Millennial Meta-Narrative of Coping with Failure

I think that this resonates with many of us because we were given such reason to hope for the future when we were younger and it didn’t pan out. We were born in the “End of History,” when western liberal democracy had triumphed over the Soviet Union, and the future was supposed to just be an asymptotically perfecting version of the present with no huge revisions.