90ies nostalgia

[martinemonster]

There's something nice and wholesome about movies from the '90ies. They all seem to say good things. Take "Peter's friends" for instance. It's a lovely movie about a bunch of friends who get together to celebrate new year's eve. Lots of trouble comes up to the surface, and the moral basically is: "Love each other and things will be okay. Oh, and by the way: wear condoms or you'll get aids." See, I love those good morals. Another example of this is Queer as folk. The moral there is: "Gays are awesome, but if you snort cocaine you get from strangers, you might die." Good morals.

Nowadays, people seem to make movies without these wholesome values I hold so dear. Nip Tuck for example, seems to say "Men are good, strong beings, while women are weak. Even lesbians really only long for the cock. Oh, and also, everyone would be slightly more happy if they had plastic surgery. Oh, and don't bother with ethics, snort coke instead, it's much more fun." In this anti-politically correct world we live in it's probably awesome, and I must admit part of me loves it, but another part of me longs for the good morals of the 90ies with it's agreeable set of values. Also, I think women in movies from the 90ies were generally stronger and more able.

But, to make myself feel better, I will also leave you with two images to prove why I don't miss the 1990ies too much.

Comments

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Oh, it rubbed me the wrong way too and now I love seeing shows like Weeds or Californication, and every time a sit-com has that part of the episode where the main characters explain morals and good values to themselves and the audience, it makes me wanna barf. I don't want to go back to Bob Saget telling me what's right and good in this world.

But, that being said, I cannot help but think that humans design themselves through their own actions and people's reactions to said actions, and through inputs. That means, if I want to know how to act as a babysitter, and my only examples of acceptable behavior as a babysitter comes from American family comedies, I'd be kinda screwed. Is it so wrong to wish that movies to some extent showed us that actions have consequences and that the world, though not a good place, has some inherent justice in it? I miss thinking that it might.

[sortkatt.livejournal.com]

Ah.
Well, actually, perhaps it would be wrong. The only inherent justice in the world is what people make for themselves. Being a bastard to your friends will make them dislike you, thus there are consequences. Being a bastard to complete strangers will make them dislike you, but since you probably won't notice, there are no (discernible) consequences. Evil people does not have more random accidents than normal people, and I'm certain Chaney sleeps like a babe at night. Trying to teach people that some sort of "Karma" influences events would be wrong for at least two reasons: People might believe and expect it (leading to "it's OK that life is hell since we will get our reward later"-thinking) and because a lot of the audience might see trough it and think it's silly.

That being said, I miss thinking so too.