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Review of "Super Dark Times"

1/16/2018

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​The first in my new occasional series reviewing movies I watched over the weekend.
 
It is hard not to feel like there is a moral rot at the center of our civilization, one that has been festering for decades and threatens to become gangrenous. In the past few months, we have learned that nearly every man with any power is a sex predator. We have seen freedom redefined as a celebration of anger, hatred, and disgust. Self-interest has been remade as the new national interest. The crass vulgarity of Donald Trump has unleashed a toxic miasma of American ugliness that was always there but had hitherto been kept hidden by the fantasy that civility was a virtue. Johnson and Nixon were nearly as foul as Trump, but never before have large crowds cheered open displays of crudity. When historians tell the story of our times, I wonder how it will go? Perhaps future historians will punctuate chapters on America’s decline in the face of power and prosperity with vignettes of individuals who went mad and in self-destructive rage lashed out against the perceived enemy within.
​The moral decay blighting America is the unstated subject of the recent movie Super Dark Times, which had a brief theatrical run a few months ago and is now streaming on Netflix. It is not normally the kind of movie I would watch, or review, but since it was billed as a Gothic tale of teenagers growing up in a rundown upstate New York town in the mid-1990s—the same time and place where I came of age—I couldn’t help but think I should see the film. Throughout the sordid tale of death and madness, the physical and moral decay of America casts dark shadows over the lives of the unfortunate protagonists.
 
I was struck at how much Super Dark Times resembles Sins of Our Youth, which was released just about a year earlier. The bare bones of each movie’s plot are identical: In both films, a disaffected group of young white male teens combat their boredom with ill-advised play with deadly weapons, fueled by illicit substances, resulting in a tragic death. In both films, the survivors attempt to cover up their crime and turn on each other, resulting in more deaths until the police finally catch on and order is restored. Both movies, oddly enough, take place over the Christmas season, and both use lighting, framing, and blocking to give an air of supernatural horror to a rather straightforward story of the consequences of bad decisions.
 
Sins of Our Youth wasn’t a good movie, and Super Dark Times is the better of the two in large measure because it leans more heavily into style and minimizes the clichés, exposition, and heavy-handed messaging. It is, instead, a mood piece. And that mood is, apparently, depression.
 
The movie opens sometime around Christmas, since there are decorations on the houses, but still a few days or weeks away since school is still open. It is the middle 1990s, when Bill Clinton was still president, and the far-off elites in Washington speak of a prosperity that the rusted-out small towns of upstate New York will never feel. However, there is something almost supernaturally wrong in the unnamed town where empty factories squat like bombed-out ruins. It may be Christmas, but the trees still hold their autumn leaves. The only bridge over the local river is closed due to decay. The streets are oddly empty, as though the townsfolk are either gone or hiding. In the first scene of the film, a huge buck deer crashes through the local high school’s window and lays dying on the cafeteria floor as faculty and staff look on in horror. No sooner is a plank placed over the window frame than it ends up tagged with obscene graffiti. The sky is always an ominous shade of gray.
 
None of these details impacts the plot, but they give the story a Gothic, supernatural air that heightens the impact of the story proper. Zach, as played by Owen Campbell (The Americans, The Following), and Josh, portrayed by Charlie Tahan (Gotham, Ozark, Wayward Pines), are lifelong best friends, and outcast nerds in their school, and they share with two other friends a particularly vulgar sensibility common to teenage boys, but here stretched by the corruption of the world around them into nearly the whole of their being. There are few other outlets for their dreams or their fears except in crude jokes and ignorant insults of the usual kind, and furtive glimpses of scrambled cable porn.
 
Josh shows his friends the dank basement room of his older brother who had left for the Marines. The boys gawk at pinup girls and fantasize about smoking an old bag of weed. They take a samurai-style sword out alleviate their boredom and pretend to be movie heroes. The sword ends up buried in one of the friends, and his death triggers the remainder of the film. The three remaining friends panic and hide the body and the sword and try to return to “normal” life in an abnormal world. The second act drew out the gradual building of tension a little too long, as dark details begin to accumulate that one of the survivors has come unhinged. The third act, which does not entirely follow from the previous two, becomes a slasher movie in the realist mode until the film reaches a bloody climax, arrested only by the tardy arrival of law enforcement.
 
The young actors offer exceptional performances, and first-time director Kevin Phillips crafts both a powerful atmosphere of dread and scenes of startling beauty, notably a shot of the four friends on their bicycles, silhouetted against sunlight reflecting off a lake. The aesthetics of the movie mostly compensate for the clichés in the plot and the somewhat illogical Grand Guignol climax, as well as the underdeveloped female characters, who mostly serve as indifferent wallpaper or helpless victims.
 
In large measure, your reaction to the movie will depend on how much of your own life you recognize in the world depicted here. Most of our current 1990s nostalgia sees the decade through the candy colored lenses of Clueless and boy bands, celebrating the long autumn of the American Dream, when peace and prosperity seemed like they might last forever. But the so-called “End of History,” as Francis Fukuyama famously mistermed it, was always a lie we told ourselves. Large parts of America were not prosperous in the 1990s, and the Rust Belt cities and the collapsing factories of the Northeast spoke to the failures of America that the titular millionaires of a booming stock market only papered over.
 
The town where I grew up, Auburn, New York, looked a lot like the fictional town of this movie in 1990s, though it was perhaps a bit larger. The streets were lined with houses from the 1970s and 1980s, and many neighborhoods had no sidewalks. The high school was a big ugly 1970s construction, square and brick and looking like the corpse of a modernist warehouse. The outer ring of the city was filled with the burned-out shells of former factories—nearly all gone now—that would periodically catch fire or collapse into piles of century-old rubble, like spent vampires decaying in the sun. My town, too, was filled with the taint of the supernatural. The center of town was a cemetery, built atop an old Indian burial mound, and in winter the city was lousy with crows—by one count the largest murder of crows anywhere in North America, so thick with black feathers that the trees at midwinter looked alive with leaves. It was the city where spiritualism took its baby steps, and the memory of old ghosts loomed as sharply as the watchtowers of the state penitentiary a stone’s throw from my grandparents’ house.
 
Many critics noted that Super Dark Times seems unrealistic in how few people are around town to see and stop the madness, but I can recall in the late 1990s, when bomb scares would close school with routine inefficiency and school buses couldn’t be mustered quickly, I would have to walk home from one side of town to the other, a walk of several miles. In the middle of the day in a bedroom community where most people worked somewhere else, I would walk clear across the city and encounter no other soul, though to be fair, I did not go through downtown. It’s also amazing to think that back then no one worried that kids would walk across town without a police escort. Imagine a school letting students simply walk away during a bomb scare today.
 
Super Dark Times is occasionally a difficult movie to watch because the teenaged characters are by turns vulnerable and confused and vulgar, crude, and unlikeable in a way true to life but nevertheless unpleasant. Were we so awful in our own youths? I knew many who were, and too many of them still are. It is the tragedy of our time that our ceaseless push for greater equality has instead reduced everyone to the basest level, and in that primitive equality of barbarism opened the door to unspeakable acts of evil, delivered with a cold indifference.
 
The opening scene of the movie confused many viewers, who did not understand why the dead deer was included. But in the end, the dying buck is the key to understanding what went wrong. The great and powerful beast, driven by whatever instinctual forces were perverted by the shiny reflection in the mirror-like windows, was driven mad with rage at nothing at all and performed a violent act of self-destruction. So too does the killer in Super Dark Times. So too has our entire country, and our world.
 
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Next Week: 13 Reasons Why and Goosebumps star Dylan Minnette discovers the horrors of real estate when he is forced to participate in The Open House.
25 Comments
Joe Scales
1/16/2018 09:56:21 am

"The crass vulgarity of Donald Trump has unleashed a toxic miasma of American ugliness that was always there but had hitherto been kept hidden by the fantasy that civility was a virtue."

Agreed. His opposition ought to simmer down a bit.

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The Anonymous Nerd
1/16/2018 06:50:15 pm

False equivalence, given his hate-fueled campaigning and governance style.

Nice try, though. No, actually.

-The Anonymous Nerd

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Joe Scales
1/17/2018 10:44:53 am

Be gone partisan. As if "hate-fueled campaigning" is different from any other sort of campaigning by any other political party.

Have a laugh next time instead. At yourself.

Tad
1/16/2018 10:48:42 am

To me Trump is the cause of empowering a lot of racist and pent up nationalistic sentiment. Never before have I seen a group of people intentionally terrorize a town that has a more liberal bent. These idiots were so jaded that they staged a Nazi torch light parade in Charlottesville and then wondered why the townspeople were so angry the next day. As if all of this kind of imagery had been forgotten as being bigoted and hateful when it happened in Berlin in 1939 and now this was o.k. somehow. The next day after the torchlight parade the citizens naturally showed up at the protest to express their disgust with the torchbearers now wearing body armor and sporting what can only be described as Nazi symbols. All of this had already been gamed out by the Nazi organizers counting on the "liberals" resorting to violence after they had been taunted by a Nazi torchlight parade around the statue of President Jefferson. This same song and dance had earlier been intentionally presented in Berkeley California home to what is known to be the most liberal college town in the United States. These Nazi's intentionally went to these towns to cause trouble then attempted to make the inhabitants of that town appear intolerant! Very slick. Too bad it backfired on them in Cville when one of the Nazi's decided to run some people over. This stuff is scary and people like Naomi Wolf and others have been predicting this now for fifteen years. Trumps demographic includes many very dangerous and racist people imo. Now we can sit back and wait for one of them to get angry over this. Great piece of writing there Jason btw.

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Americanegro
1/16/2018 11:36:41 am

I probably won't get to watch this movie but I thoroughly enjoyed the review. Thank you!

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Only Me
1/16/2018 11:54:30 am

Here's my thoughts on the matter. Our current environment can be partly blamed on political correctness gone mad and identity politics that create fierce competition among groups for the title of most oppressed. Perpetual victimhood seems to be rewarded and feelings are more important than facts or the truth.

The media, which was supposed to be the watchdog of government and the voice of the people, is now an unabashed bedfellow with its preferred members of a political class that failed the people who reside in cities and towns as described in the blog post.

Freedom of speech is no longer sacrosanct, and any disagreement or desire for honest discussion is often met with -ist and -ic labels being thrown around in response to perceived "wrongthink" and/or calls for censorship or violence. It speaks volumes when a group can use distinctly fascist tactics and call itself ANTIFA unironically.

It's almost comical that "crass vulgarity" from the most powerful man in the world is strangely refreshing.

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Americanegro
1/17/2018 04:50:53 pm

Asking for a friend, WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THIS "VOICE OF THE PEOPLE" NONSENSE? I mean seriously, that's not the fact and it's never been the fact. Saying people can yell at each other in print, which I think is great, is different from saying "THAT's the voice of the people."

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Clete
1/16/2018 12:13:44 pm

About the political picture in the United States. There is a faint glimmer of hope coming from of all places my home state of Utah. Orrin Hatch, the senile senator from Utah has finally after forty-two years to finally do something good for the country and retire. It is thought that his replacement will be Mitt Romney, who even as a junior senator, will have power and become a valid Republican rallying point to oppose the current dim wit in the White House. It is thought that he will then run for President in 2020 and bring civility back, at least to the White House. I suspect by then Donald Trump will have worn out his welcome and perhaps have been impeached.

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Machala
1/16/2018 12:48:41 pm

Thanks Jason, for an extremely well written film revue. I enjoyed both your observations and your imagery. In an age where many people don't even know how to properly form a simple Declarative Sentence, it's a pleasure to read someone who takes pride and enjoyment in what they write.
Keep up the great work !

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Uncle Ron
1/16/2018 02:07:36 pm

Machala stole my thunder but I still want to compliment you on the exceptional wordsmithing in this blog. You certainly know how to summon up doom and gloom with an almost (dare I say it?) Lovecraftian morbidity.

Having said that . . . I'm a lot older than you and having lived through the 90s what I remember is that it was BORING. There will always be "horror" stories out there and the news media will insure that we get a steady diet of depression and outrage. Meanwhile, social media portrays everyone else's life as an endless stream of awesome successes and fabulous accomplishments.

Go hug your cat.

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Americanegro
1/16/2018 03:48:16 pm

I am strapping on the cardogan and bumping down the thermostat a couple degrees. Might even put on some Allman Brothers later. The President might control the White House Tennis Court but he doesn't control the country.

Anyone who was bored during the 90s, well, that's their issue. I always live in interesting times.

Haiti is a shithole. That's why people leave. How complicated is that? People left Africa because it doesn't have a good riverine system or deep water harbors. This is not rocket science.

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Enid McConnell
1/16/2018 07:48:26 pm

I have greatly enjoyed Jason's insightful analysis of fringe topics, and I do hope this blog is not turning into something political. One of the reasons why the "crass" and "vulgar" Trump won is precisely because of those "burned-out shells of former factories" where the deplorable working class was sold out by the urbane and mannerly elites. Duh.

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Army Vet
1/16/2018 08:13:53 pm

At what point can you separate your hated of all things conservative and Republican and just do what you’re good at? Write your blog entries discussing alt-history and leave the legitimately elected POTUS out of your syllabus of slander. You have a lot of liberal angst for what effectively is a stay at home mom.

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orang
1/16/2018 09:56:36 pm

This is one of the best blog posts I've read in many a day. To those of you who don't like it, then stop reading.

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Americanegro
1/17/2018 08:01:39 pm

And I say to those who don't like it "Keep reading". I'm not sure what side you're on, even, but believe that man is infinitely redeemable.

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Paul S.
1/17/2018 10:43:21 am

I doubt I will see the movie since dark/horror type movies aren't my cup of tea, but you've provided a very interesting, and well-written, review.

In my memory, the 90s were a time of prosperity, but I was lucky and grew up in a fairly wealthy suburb with little sign of decay. It is important for people like me to remember that economic decline began in many parts of the country long before the Great Recession hit.

Unlike some of the previous commenters, I generally agree with your views on politics. Still, I hope that you continue to devote most of your posts to well-informed criticisms of pseudo-historical claims, and explorations of little-known but fascinating historical topics. After all, there are countless blogs about politics, but not many that do such a good job addressing fringe claims!

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1/17/2018 10:56:35 am

I have no intention of turning this into a blog about politics. But it's important to remember that movies, books, TV shows, etc. don't exist in a vacuum. They exist in conversation with the culture around them, and politics is also an expression of that culture. It would be irresponsible not to point out what a topic under discussion has to say about the way we live now. The weird thing for me is that the review I wrote above is neither explicitly political nor focused on Republicans. The 1990s were the era of Bill Clinton, who ushered in our current hedonistic vulgarity with his personal excesses, and yet conservative readers instantly made a connection between vulgarity and hatred on one hand and conservatism and the Republican party one the other, when it is really the entire class of corrupt elites who have led the charge.

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Americanegro
1/17/2018 04:44:28 pm

I will give you a kind of "trudat" on all of that. Butt, anytime you say ANY President's name you're being political regardless of saying "I'm not being political". The 90s were anything but boring to me, I was fighting for excuses to not bang 17 and 18 year olds. Now of course I'm a monstrosity and there's no interest. Clinton happened to come into office at a time when he could take credit for the internet boom. That said, there was that one balanced budget! Not our worst President, in spite of firing a missile at the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. On the bright side, the selling of our satellite secrets to the Chinese also happened under his watch. Slaughter in Kosovo? Small beer.

Paul S.
1/17/2018 04:49:03 pm

Good point that all aspects of culture and politics are interconnected. I wonder, though, if the problem is so much that people, either elite or ordinary, are really that much more crass, vulgar, angry, and hate-filled than in the past, or whether the darker side of human nature is just much more in the public eye thanks to modern technology and media. To take just one example, you noted yourself in the original post that LBJ and Nixon could be as crude and nasty as Trump in private. JFK was an even more thoughtless womanizer than Bill Clinton. The crudity and bad behavior of the powerful in the past was much more hidden. I don't know if behavior has changed or if it's more the perception of behavior.

Jason Colavito link
1/17/2018 04:54:28 pm

I don't think that it's that people are cruder than in the past so much as the institutions that used to modulate culture are so weak that we no longer see a clear difference between private and public behavior. Our culture seems to have dispensed with the idea that the public square ought to have separate and higher expectations for decorum, and we have certainly lost the aspirational aspect of culture--that we should strive to emulate the highest forms of behavior--in favor of a demotic urge to celebrate baseness as authenticity.

Titus Pullo
1/17/2018 08:01:14 pm

Jason,

I really enjoyed this blog. I think I've shared that my Dad was born in Auburn in 1922 on Wall Street near the Prison. He moved away after he got out of the army in 46 as he saw no future there. Growing up in the 70's we made the trip to that large cemetery across the street from Auburn High where his parents were buried twice a year. I found Auburn to be a spooky place to be honest as a kid. The cemetery on a hill overlooking Owasco Lake scared the hell out of me as a kid. The area around the Prison (we occasionally drove by his old house) looked like something from the 19th century. Years later my best friend got married in SA and had his reception at the place around the corner from your high school (I can't recall the name) and we stayed at the Holiday Inn downtown. We went for a run the morning of the wedding and found ourselves on some side streets north of the Prison where we came across the "bombed" out International Harvester Plant (where my grandfather worked just after the turn of the century). the downtown looked like it was stopped in 1930..the houses to the east on route 20 were large (a reminder of prosperous times in the 19th century) but it all seemed (and still does when I drive through) out of time. A very strange place for a visit. Recently (I work at WA in SAF) I had to take some suppliers to dinner and they were staying at the Hilton Garden Inn so we walked to the Prison Brewery..it was dark and not a sole was on the street. Known for Seward and Tubman...but I can't imagine growing up there in the 80's. then again my wife grew up in Rome NY next to the SAC base and when we met in 88 the place looked like it hadn't changed since 1960. Central NY is a strange but interesting place. The small "cities" and towns have so much history and yet they are like those abandon towns that were doing well and ready to really grow but the railroad decided to run north or south or east or west..well you get the picture.

I do agree with the idea of public virtue (Washington coined that term I think). Yes people can be crass and boorish but in public and social setting there was some expectation..especially for our elected officials. I can't see Jefferson or Madison talking like Trump or I'm sure any of the them in private. My Dad did tell me of a cemetery that was supposed an indian burial ground and all the kids thought haunted..

Now about that ice cream stand on route 20 before you come into town...what the heck was that name? ha ha

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Americanegro
1/17/2018 08:20:49 pm

Get that you're obsessed with prison but what did his parents do while they were escaping from being buried? Wouldn't they have most of the year free?

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Americanegro
1/17/2018 08:14:20 pm

I think everyone in power enjoys the heck out of it and everyone out of power who thinks they still have a shot is a jumpy little bitch. That said, the Kennedy Nixon debates were in my view the pinnacle of political discourse in the 1960s. I wasn't old enough but could see voting for either one. Even now, knowing everything I know.

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Titus pullo
1/17/2018 09:05:34 pm

I enjoyed Ron Paul in the 08 and 12 debates. Last politican ive heard with public virtue

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NoOneInParticular
1/21/2018 03:52:26 pm

I am finding myself actually feeling a sense of gratitude for this blog.Why? As I age I find less and less true wisdom and intellegence in this ole world. Maybe it is a little projection, but mostly, so much confusion and squandering of mental resources. It is refreshing to read not only Jasons' perspective but each of the individuals who have written here.
I think I'll be sticking around for a while.

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