"THERE IS STILL TIME.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack." --Letterboxd description



"I found myself wondering, what if she was right? What if she had been telling the truth? What if I really was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful. Someone buried alive and suffocating to death. Very far away, on the other side of the television screen. But I know that's not true. That's just a fantasy."

ok guys. buckle the fuck in, because i have some shit to say.

first of all, i wanna make it clear that i am acutely aware that there is an incredibly specific target audience for this film.
this film kinda operates with the underlying assumption that the audience is made up of a demographic (in this case, transgender people) that will understand what is not being explained to it explicitly, and by doing, WILL inevitably alienate people who are NOT the target audience.
and guess what ???? thats COMPLETELY OK !! like seriously when it came out and even a bit after i saw people whining that they just didnt get it/that the message didnt apply to them and instead of acknowledging that and leaving it be they made a massive deal about it.
guess what dickhead?? for people like me aka people who are Incredibly Queer, MOST THINGS in the mainstream dont apply to US!!

let me put it this way: take any for the sake of this lil thought experiment ill pick one from my watched list on letterboxd at random: Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004).

• what does the plot revolve around?: a girl new to an american high school in 2004 getting mixed up with the wrong people aka the coolr ich popular girls that are mean to everyone.
• whats demonstrated as the source of the conflict?: girl likes boy, but she cant like THAT BOY because (insert reason here). and uh oh! love triangle!!

these two points, which make up the entire basis of the film, could not be more irrelevant to me.
im not a girl let alone straight, i didnt attend an american highschool and its not 2004 anymore. that being said despite acknowledging that this movie has NOTHING TO DO WITH ME it was still fun.
my point is if i can sit down shut up and enjoy a movie thats not intended for me, while still being able to meaningfully acknowledge what its gettting at as an observer, then so can you.