psycholinguists in the slime dimension: I mostly study ambigooity
I feel like @leifw.bsky.social has some work on the cultural meaning that relates to the question of addressee as a matter of ideology
it’s imo clever to have the distortion of the screen sort of put into the environment itself, and to have the environment itself by shaped by the flaws (distortions) in the characters
I think the medium is VHS (specifically, film broadly) which gets used to give a creepy vibe all over in analogue horror and beyond
which going back to your point about nostalgia for a time he didn’t live in, feels like if you described the 90s to someone and they read it back
kinda feels like if you described a commercial to someone and had them make one
it feels to me like the movie is grappling with the idea that things can be defined by their flaws, which is interesting for horror in a genre that explicitly uses flaws (of VHS) to give character/ambiance/vibe etc
yeah, and a question about a loss of identity if you really try to see the world that way and avoid taking responsibility by always deferring explanation (I didn’t want x I had to because y, what do you get left with)