loaded question: what bit of pop culture (movies, TV, books, comics, games, whatever) best captures the feeling of being disconnected with the larger world?
loaded question: what bit of pop culture (movies, TV, books, comics, games, whatever) best captures the feeling of being disconnected with the larger world?
It’s Monday! But here in the UK, it’s also the end-of-summer bank holiday, similar to Labor Day in the US… though that’s not till next Monday. Meanwhile, my ex-pat American ass, running a web site that has more US readers than UK readers, is feeling very out-of-sorts. It doesn’t feel like a holiday to me, even after 12 and a half years living in London, and I’m having a hard time relaxing like it’s a holiday. But also next Monday, which will be a holiday in the US but not in the UK, will also not feel like a day off to me. I never quite feel at home in either time zone… like the denizens of Cory Doctorow’s brilliant, vaguely SF-nal 2004 novel Eastern Standard Tribe [Amazon US | Amazon UK | Apple Books], which I read long before I moved to the UK (from the US’s Eastern time zone) and now find myself living. *sigh*
Which prompts this week’s question: What bit of pop culture (movies, TV, books, comics, games, whatever) best captures the feeling of being disconnected with the larger world?
My first thought, oddly enough, is Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. What I found most compelling about the story of this sequel was how well it captured Gwen and Miles' disconnect from the larger world and loneliness at being separated from each other, the only other person who they knew could relate to their life-changing experiences. After the events of the first film, they are both seen trying to go back to what had been their normal life, and completely failing to be engaged by it, having been irrevocably changed.
My first thought, oddly enough, is Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. What I found most compelling about the story of this sequel was how well it captured Gwen and Miles' disconnect from the larger world and loneliness at being separated from each other, the only other person who they knew could relate to their life-changing experiences. After the events of the first film, they are both seen trying to go back to what had been their normal life, and completely failing to be engaged by it, having been irrevocably changed.