Getting Stronger Every Day

"There are two movies I saw on TV about boys who were taken from their families and then returned to them years later. One boy was on a fun spaceship for years and the other boy was kidnapped and molested. These boys were never the same again and they just couldn't re-integrate into the family. I saw these movies when I was little. I've often described them to people, always paired together. They are sort of the comedy and tragedy version of the same story and it is a mundanely spiritual story. Getting Stronger Every Day includes these boys' tales, but they are like mystical objects placed on the living reality of the man storyteller. In other parts of the movie actual mystical objects hover in peoples lives without a myth or story attached. I like to think about how these dimensions interact simply and can be enacted: real life / story / worldly / spirit / video / flat drawing."
—Miranda July

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Getting
• Stronger
• Every
• Day
• miranda
• july

[jmcnally1965]

sounds like the film(s) he is talking about is Mysterious Skin, directed by Greg Araki, but that came out in 2004. This short is from 2001. Strange.

[rpfitzgibbon]

He's describing a mini-series. "I know My Name is Steven". I actually saw it on Lifetime years ago. Not sure what's supposed to be going on with Carrie Brownstein though?

[2spoonsmaloy]

im enjoying the sounds

[ijji]

Great piece! I used to play in a band with Richard back in the 80s.

[LucyJuneWilliams]

steven is steven that was abused isnt he?

i guess it doesnt really matter, its still a really beautiful film.

[sparklingsspit]

I don't get it. Was the missing piece that someone else needed to fill hanging in the air?

Was that man supposed to be the boy from the story and he was making up the cherio girl from his fantasies? What did the green fog over the face represent?

[doublewuzzy]

I've seen Flight of the Navigator... good movie. The spaceship looks like a nerf football.

[wabecca]

i have the girl's stuffed dog :)

[AjmirKandola]

we all need to be a friend of mythos.

And all the quellers of Christiana

Foetid gadabouts of nature's coteries,

Answer only to the bawls of sticky-tongued

Pillar-women, Red at dawn,

With stoic creases around their nose.

[lhagan33]

beautiful.