Susana_loves_movies

Now I understand why my parents thought I was weird.

I saw the crow as a teenager and was instantly hooked. It appealed to everything I loved back then, and ti My outsider, longing for a perfect love, heart. I rewatched with my mom and she said it was cheesy and way too dark. They didn't understand, no one understood a goth teenager in the late 90's.

And that's exactly how I'd react to the new crow, if I was my parents back then. But I didn't, I actually enjoyed it a lot. It portrays today's adolescents exactly how I felt back then, but in the year 2024. I know it's hard to see Brandon Lee in Bill Skarsgard, but you're not supposed to. Brandon Lee belongs to that perfect 90's movie that marked and entire generation of lonely people. The new generation, however, are what they are, and it's sad to see how much people hate them through the score this movie got. It's not bad acted (ok, maybe FKA twigs was not the best choice, but we didn't saw that much of the other Shelley either), the ost is damn good, without forgetting it's origins and inserting novelties , and the time Eric takes to realize who he is, what's his path after death, screams to a generation of lost souls, desperate to be loved, just wasting away. My loneliness in the 99's was a walk in the park compared to what's happening today, but all that grown ass people can do is hate on the young, as if they had fallen from the sky, and not raised by parents, too absent, too busy, too anything else that means parenthood. That's why this Eric is so alone, that's why he takes so long to realize what he has to do, that's why he has a tone of tattoos and does drugs. But let's just hate him, it's so much easier.

This movie looks pretty underrated to me.... Maybe that's because I lived with anxiety most my life and know the feeling, and how it can be an eternal stalker. And quite simply, this movie is about that. About wanting to get read of something that looks colossal and out of control, but at the same time, something that can be controlled, but then it's not, and people outside, even "an alien", can't deal with it, or understand it. You have to feel it, and know you're no going to die. It takes years. Maybe a lifetime. See past the obvious... This movie is not about an invasion, it's about being invaded your whole life.