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Flashdance
Flashdance, which I’m lead to believe is a seminal 80s movie, makes no goddamn sense.
We watched it on Friday because we wanted something vaguely mindless, and I learned that:
1. The best way to deal with a character who has a mid-20s-year-old’s lifestyle (working as both a welder and a dancer, on her own, and dating her boss) and a 14-year-old’s dream (going to ballet school) is to split the difference and make her 18.
2. Something terrible has happened to our media if a woman being casually shown working as a welder was perfectly normal in the 80s and seems like something you’d never see in a movie made now.
3. A bar full of hicks and truckers thinks that mostly-clothed women doing bizarre interpretive dance is the best thing ever.
4. “80s flailing”, as a style of dance, has not aged well.
5. If your boyfriend who constantly makes racist jokes (about your race) leaves town without telling you, the best response is to go work at a strip club. Except not, because you’ll need to be “rescued” from that job before the plot forgets about you entirely.
6. Narrative thrust is entirely overrated and movies don’t really need it.
7. The director has a fetish for women exercising. Seriously, there are multiple scenes that are just workouts set to music, some with characters who don’t appear anywhere else.
Overall: There are some “seminal” 80s movies that I really enjoyed. This...was just kinda weird and aimless.
We watched it on Friday because we wanted something vaguely mindless, and I learned that:
1. The best way to deal with a character who has a mid-20s-year-old’s lifestyle (working as both a welder and a dancer, on her own, and dating her boss) and a 14-year-old’s dream (going to ballet school) is to split the difference and make her 18.
2. Something terrible has happened to our media if a woman being casually shown working as a welder was perfectly normal in the 80s and seems like something you’d never see in a movie made now.
3. A bar full of hicks and truckers thinks that mostly-clothed women doing bizarre interpretive dance is the best thing ever.
4. “80s flailing”, as a style of dance, has not aged well.
5. If your boyfriend who constantly makes racist jokes (about your race) leaves town without telling you, the best response is to go work at a strip club. Except not, because you’ll need to be “rescued” from that job before the plot forgets about you entirely.
6. Narrative thrust is entirely overrated and movies don’t really need it.
7. The director has a fetish for women exercising. Seriously, there are multiple scenes that are just workouts set to music, some with characters who don’t appear anywhere else.
Overall: There are some “seminal” 80s movies that I really enjoyed. This...was just kinda weird and aimless.