Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Stranger Things | Beyond Popcorn & Flickering Lights
For the past two nights I was huddled up in my tiny little chair black lights off with a bowl of popcorn and a cup of ice cream ready to see what this phenomenon is all about. It has been almost a month since it debuted on Netflix that everyone was raving about. From the tweets, shout outs, and art tributes everyone can’t get enough of this series that has accumulated a cult following.
I was almost late to the party, but I didn’t even flinch about it that Millie Bobby Brown is set to travel to the Philippines this month for Asia Pop Comic Con in Manila. Everyone will be lining up for her autographs and photo opportunities to think she’s only twelve one more number to the character she made famous.
But the heart of this small time show is the nostalgia that made it known. Growing up seeing Tron, The Last Star Fighter, Stand By Me, and anything that inspired this series has simply has something of the opposite what we live now. The limitations of technology gave kids the freedom to live out their lives in the great outdoors. Those where the days you spent your summer with neighbourhood friends hanging out playing Filipino street games are now a dying culture.
“Stranger Things” reminds us how things where simple with culture how they encounter certain challenges in dealing supernatural
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