the groundhog day project

(There will be profanity.) About 40 minutes into S.F.W. , Cliff Spab is wandering about inside a record store--this film is, of course, from when those still existed--and a video of him held hostage comes on and he watches. It's one of the interesting moments where you can really see what the film is going for, as Spab sees himself from the outside and see what has people so enamored. In that video, Spab says: Fuck you. What's the point of saying anything? You know how it is, man. The same old fucking shit. So, I'm... I'm stuck in this Fun Stop. So fucking what? So, I'm bored as shit. So fucking what? So, I don't know what the fuck's going on. So fucking what? So, I might die in here... So fucking what? So, I haven't had a decent shower and food in way too fucking... So fucking what? How is this different from anything else that's happened in my life? I mean, God, when I was in high school, fucking up big time, everybody was always giving...

The one thing that Poltergeist is, aside from a three-decades-old horror film that holds up pretty damn well despite a few structural flaws-- (For the record, those structural flaws include the late introduction of Steve's boss, and the very late lead in, thereby, to the explanation of what's going on, or rather why. Its is also, arguably, a structural problem that all those potential metaphors I mentioned yesterday pretty much get forgotten after the first act... or get twisted up into the one metaphor I'm going to play through today. The movie hints at things that are not followed up on. Why do Dr. Lesh and Tangina exist as separate characters at all? (I might figure out how to answer that last one below.) And, for the record, there is definitely something going on in this film regarding suburbs and tract homes, but that also gets twisted into today's actual topic. Actually, the potential dangers in domesticity--those kids with the remote control cars that purpos...