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I love it when Kelly throws caution to the wind and just fucking trolls people https://twitter.com/WeAreTheMutants/status/1327115061576441859
I voted for Top Gun too quickly, I wish to officially change my vote to Back to the Future, that paean to all-American neoliberal incest
BTTF's interest in reveling in the seamy underbelly of the 1950s (George's voyeurism, Biff's sexual violence) isn't subversive; it's only meant to show how much better the world would be if all its brutal muck and grime were swept away and covered up by shiny '80s yuppiedom
Marty changed history, taking his family out of the squalid 1970s and into the High 1980s: you can practically feel the Carterian malaise hanging over the pre-timeline change scenes. Take a look at the difference between TV ads shot in '82 and '86 and you'll see what I mean
Before he changed history, George and Lorraine were dumpy, ugly, fat, poor, trodden-upon. The will to power that makes George and Lorraine successful and happy and beautiful comes from Marty teaching them how to fuck and fight and get rich: Reagan's America in a nutshell
Marty accomplishes this by redirecting the libidinal charge between himself and his mother to his father. The incestuous charge of BTTF isn't just a mere tasteless joke: it's the center of the entire film and its reflection of the increasingly insular culture of mid-'80s America
BTTF is Blue Velvet with special effects.
A thoroughly nasty, grimy little film, but it absolutely nails both chronological ends of Cold War America: you can have your sex and violence and greed celebrated in public or cloaked by politesse, but you absolutely can't *not* have it
A thoroughly nasty, grimy little film, but it absolutely nails both chronological ends of Cold War America: you can have your sex and violence and greed celebrated in public or cloaked by politesse, but you absolutely can't *not* have it
