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Dead End Drive-In Used a 1986 Vocab to Show Us Our World Today
Brian Trenchard-Smith's 1986 film Dead End Drive-In is one of those movies that appears to be one thing—in this case, a post-apocalyptic thriller in a sea of Mad Max imitators—and was in fact another: a sneakily subversive attack on mainstream culture It sets up a world in which real-world situations play out in allegory, a[...]