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Movies We’ve Never Seen
‘Ghost’ is Gentrifier’s Fairy Tale of New York
Also, we don’t want anyone touching us with their clay hands, not even Patrick Swayze
Welcome to the second installment of “Movies Keith and Sarah Have Never Seen. (Until Now).” Keith Harris lives in Minneapolis and was, until very recently, the music editor for Minneapolis’ City Pages (RIP.) Sarah Miller is a writer and lives in Northern California.
Sarah: Ghost is so bad. It was so bad it almost felt like science fiction — not because science fiction is bad — I mean, I generally don’t love science fiction but I support its existence for those who do. My lack of interest in the genre doesn’t relate to my stunned horror watching Ghost.
What I am saying is Ghost is so bad it’s almost like it’s depicting an alien world. And what’s weird about it is that it’s not the actual ghost that makes Ghost not feel real. Like, the Ghost may be the realest thing about Ghost, not that it seems very real. But the world of Ghost — New York City in the late 1980s, since it came out in 1990 — is so depressingly synthetic in this movie. Thinking about it three days after seeing it that’s kind of all I can think of.
