Stranger Things 5
Any hyperbole, Stranger Things is beyond words. "Beyond words" is to be done with words.
Stranger Things doesn't just embody the feeling of having friends, but is about having friends. Not basic friendships where you're friends with someone because you're the same age as them, attend the same establishment as them, live near them, or something else; in a sense, because organizations and social structures pushed you to be friends with them. No, Stranger Things is about friends, as it can make you feel life's indescribable moods and sensibilities through its characters. The indescribable sensibility you get when something in your life hasn't ended yet, but you can't point to exactly what specific aspect of it makes you sad. You're connecting that to the mistakes of your past and how you miss the past when it was happening, but now sit and feel like you're the only person in a quiet place like a farmland for miles and miles; this show captures that exact sensibility. The ineffable mood of when you're waiting for a car to pick you up from a lesson on a Thursday night and see the illuminated signs around you in the quiet and dark night outside, this show captures that exact mood.
Stranger Things' series finale epilogue conveys what farewells with real friends are like, not sad where you are crying, but sad where you have a heart-sinking feeling. Your heart-sinking isn't because the series finale is bad (it's not), just like how your heart-sinking after a farewell to your friend isn't because you had a bad friendship with them or because your friendship ended badly. The Stranger Things series finale heart-sinking shakes the way the series _. I remember how happy I felt, and moments where I was thinking, "they're real friends who care deeply about each other. This isn't something in the re.
because you start questioning how you've entered a different world, you feel hollow because you.
When the series ended, I was surprised that I wasn't crying or close to it, as I had been at other moments. Instead, I felt a sinking feeling,
When they're sad, you're sorry. There are quieter moments in life, and this show is one of them.
This is a singular set of scenes in the show that brings feelings out. This verisimilitude is powerful, as the emotions are so potent that they are sometimes more powerful than the real world. You know the characters like they're actually your friends, so watching them in these moments of stress. The work connects so deeply, without using chemicals or reminders that it's a real-world event, making you feel stressed or care about the characters. If a work of art is so powerful that it can make you care about its characters even more than some people you've known longer than in the real world, it isn't.
The theme of friendship is conveyed through the characters' friendship and their time together. It has them interacting and seeing it together, and how their circumstances push them into positions that don't directly target
It's not an escape from real life so much as a new real life where you can empathize with people you've never met. It's
The scene in "Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz" where Max and Holly must go towards different ways to return to the real world begins by using an arrangement of Kate Bush's song "Running Up That Hill", but instead of using drum beats during the drum beat part, it uses piano keys. The piano keys play while Max tells Holly that she needs to find her own way back by finding something special to herself, something that makes her feel safe, brings strength, gives hope, and connects her to the real world. Something powerful and meaningful that you can feel in your heart. When Holly settles on her special thing, the song reaches its synth part, but the arrangement instead uses bowed string instruments. Holly, being of elementary school age, doesn't understand how her _ has that power. Max asks Holly why she always carries _ with her. Holly replies because her brother told her that whenever she becomes scared, she can just become her, but she keeps trying, and it never works. As Holly replies, the arrangement begins using choral vocals. Holly tells Max that she was only able to stand when her mother got attacked, and when Max got attacked, "there's nothing heroic about her". Max replies with, "There's nothing you could do in those moments, Holly". Max tells her she's smart and bravely faces danger. And how her special item is her. The two hug before saying goodbye. The scene ends with Max and Holly both running into the real-world portals as the song plays.
As the choral vocals hum, they shock me with the emotional, psychological experiences of another human being.
Watching Stranger Things 5 has been the most physically intense experience I've ever had while watching a movie or TV series. Before I began watching Volume 2's first episode: "Chapter Five: Shock Jock", I went to the restroom and put on _ deodorant. Once the episode finished, I ran to the bathroom. My armpits were stinky and sweaty. It felt like I had actually (not hyperbolizing) had a panic. Where once you begin the attack, you have to go to the bathroom_ and start sweating so much because of a bodily response. Reflecting on my body while watching the episode, I felt a chill throughout. I felt a tension in the dramatic parts; my body responded as if the characters were actually my friends in danger, because they are. Watching Max almost die, seeing her EKG flatline/asystole, was like actually watching my friend's EKG flatline/asystole. Watching Will drop didn't feel as anxious as Max, but I still felt stressed. Watching Steve and Dustin fight felt stressful. But the most stressful was seeing Dustin desperately try to reach Nancy and Jonathan, calling them not to shoot at the shield generator. Still, Nancy is getting ready, herself even unsure, and has her finger on the trigger, a bullet loaded, and is going to shoot the gun at the shield generator.
That this is a singular set of scenes in the show that bring out feelings, this verisimilitude is powerful, as the emotions are sometimes more potent than in the real world. You know the characters like they're actually your friends, so watching them in these moments of stress. The work connects so deeply, without using chemicals or reminders that it's a real-world event, making you feel stressed or care about the characters. If a work of art is so powerful that it can make you care about its characters even more than some people you've known longer than in the real world, it isn't.
The theme of friendship is conveyed through the characters being friends and spending time together. It has them interacting and seeing it together, and how their circumstances push them into positions that don't directly target
It's not an escape from real life so much as a new real life where you can empathize with people you've never met.
