I Saw the TV Glow is full of surreal, stylish images - phantasmagoric, even. But the movie's magic is its refusal to feel magical. All the enchantment is extracted. A fog of ennui expands to fill the vacuum.
"You can't talk about the suburbs without talking about white supremacy and white flight," Schoenbrun, 37, tells Bustle. "That idea of safety and stability only exists in what it excludes." Add a dollop of '90s "end of history" delusion, and the world only gets hazier.
His homophobic father - played with a menacing edge by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst - instills "a mostly ambient shame that keeps Owen from exploring and finding himself," Schoenbrun says. "In many ways, [that shame is] the force that stole decades from my life in a very subtle and ambient way."
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