Living in the End Times

Pissing in our faces

01.15.2023 - By Amos & ExPlay

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Richard Donner's The Goonies (1985). Quite possibly the strangest film of the 1980s, not so much because of the explicit treasure-hunting content of this "kids" movie so much as the subtext: child exploitation, neoliberal capitalism's obliteration of community, and other sins of the father. A&E discuss why this film still haunts the unconscious of an entire generation.

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