Tristan at Primal Edge invited me back to do a film review of two similar films – Krorine’s Spring Breakers and Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake. Both films are incisive commentaries on post-modern hipster culture and the hedonistic abandon of millennial nihilism, contrasted with Korine’s commentary on Gen X, Kids. We also investigate the subtle conspiracy elements of Under the Silver Lake, Hollywood Decoded, ritual crimes, 60s center-culture as engineered – almost as if Dave McGowan had written the screenplay.
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I noticed in the bedroom of the underground bunker, before he goes up the shaft into the 7-11 milk refrigerator, the ceiling has an array of seemingly random green pipes. One even terminates upside down into the room. These resemble the green pipes in the nintendo super mario game. Maybe it’s hinting at the fact that this world is like the 2D video game, but really most people are missing a whole dimension/level/layer to what’s in front of them hence the 3D pipes in the bedroom. Also in Mario the pipes lead to secret rooms from up above so maybe it’s also an analogy. I don’t know exactly what to make of the symbolism of the green mario pipes only that I noticed they were there.