Too young for ‘The Graduate’? Too old for John Hughes? Your cinematic touchstones is perhaps as quirky as mine. Chief film criticNovember 21, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST(Illustrations by Ahoy There for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveIn movie circles, say the words “generational touchstone” and the identical titles inevitably trip off the tongue: Because the invention of the medium, movies have possessed singular power to mirror their audiences, picking up on their aspirations and anxieties and reflecting them back either as reassuring truths or unsettling indictments.Members of the Best Generation who were born within the 1910s and Nineteen Twenties got here of age with the Little Rascals, then saw the sobering realities of their...
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