Josie and the Pussycats feels to me like it set the tone for our generation? It's so fucking meta and postmodern and honestly genuine. Like, it knows that it's got a genre, which is the the teen girl movie, and then it knows the places you go from there--be super deep and philosophical about consumerism or whatever, or be super edgy and cynical and point out that puppies grow up into dogs who get old and die, and that friendships end; and it knows about parodies that play on all those things; and then it wraps right around and does what it sets out to do so at the end there are hugs and love and Everything Made Right again.
And it kind of feels like it was a sea-change, as the bright bubbly optimism of the 90s crashed into 9/11 and left us with what we have today.
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Date: 2016-04-06 09:44 am (UTC)And it kind of feels like it was a sea-change, as the bright bubbly optimism of the 90s crashed into 9/11 and left us with what we have today.