How Hollywood (finally) took on intergenerational trauma in 2022

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How Hollywood (finally) took on intergenerational trauma in 2022
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With titles like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Turning Red, and The Whale, filmmakers this year began to reckon with painful parent-child dynamics

have grappled with intergenerational trauma. Rather than parents who are good or bad arbitrarily, this new batch of cinematic parents suffer from their own received trauma, explicitly conveyed to the film’s audience, which are reflected in their relationships with their children. In, Brendan Fraser’s Charlie is an absentee father to Sadie Sink’s Ellie due to the anti-LGBTQ+ persecution of Charlie and his lover from a religious group.

The “I am an island” ethos seems to have been abruptly replaced by one of “hurt people hurt people” in which pain is easily passed around. Perhaps this is due to the 2022 slate of films being ones largely written and/or filmed post-COVID. During quarantine, mental health awareness rose withand even those without a therapist spending hours a week on TikTok, a popular platform overflowing with mental health advice .

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