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the traumas and anxieties of 21st century american imperialism reconciled in the form that americans are best attuned in: pop culture. a story about a soldier who has to kill anyone who figures out who he really is. 352
ironically, the guest ends up having longevity precisely because it doesn't seek out any of the implications invited by this premise and its many contexts -- it's just like those old films were, but here, now. yet, all this means is that it's a part of the long-running alienation within american fantasy, and with this trait it's perhaps the most faithful of the recent 80s nostalgia. it's the absorbing preoccupation of aesthetics, and the slow but steady dread welling up within you: that someday you'll be confronted with yourself for all that you've done and all that you didn't. 352