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I Saw the TV Glow, 2024

Henry Giardina
Jul 15, 2024
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Some weeks ago I was describing a familiar problem to my therapist, something I’ve talked about in this newsletter several times. This is the problem of loneliness on film: the difficulty of portraying isolation visually. Silent films were better at this: the great silent comedians lived in a world populated by no one but themselves and the occasional c…

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