I watched this with my friends and we were talking and fooling around during the movie so correkt me if i'm wrong and misunderstood the timeline, but if Lisa was suppose to live in the 60's, why did she look like a emo from 2005 with out straightened hair and that thick eyeliner? It ruind the time-feeling for me bc i'm really fond of portraits from the old days.
Also, this movie reminded me of AHS- Murder House.
I had hair like Siouxie/Robert Smith in the 80's.
shareShe's from the 80s, The Smiths poster and The Cure poster with Robert Smith with his back is a classic 80s poster. Also she's always wearing a Siouxsie and the Banshees T-shirt. Also the car her dad owns. The Pac-Man game her brother plays. The black eye liner to you might seem emo from 2005? but to me it's classic 80s. There is actually very little if anything original about the youth of today.
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As so many posters pointed out the clues to the 80's. There is really no need to mentions that. I also would have thought it obvious. But I do have to agree that Lisa was looking very modern. I was 15 in 1985 and her hair is all wrong. If it was earlier in the decade, it could have been a hold over from the 70's. But in that year, she would have had bangs, everyone had bangs. Even if they had strait hair, which was not common. Now the eyeliner was right. I wore my eyeliner just like that. Her jeans and concert shirts would have been accurate too. The 'goth' boys dressed like that, although at the time, we didn't call them goth. Big hair was a thing for the girls trying to be trendy, so were stirrup pants and layering several blouses. Lisa looks like someone who was more of a loner.
shareI actually had a 60s vs 80s moment watching it, but it was for a different reason.
The record she listens to, over and over, the recording of Peter and the Wolf? That record is from the 60s. I was a child in the 60s, and my parents bought me that record and I wore it out. I recognized the narration, vividly. I always thought it was Sebastian Cabot, but I'm not seeing him listed in the wiki page regarding that piece-but what did I know, I wasn't old enough to read, LOL.
It's interesting, it looks like there were 10 or more narrated 80s versions of that, but the filmmaker used a version from the 1960s, which I think is really cool. It seems like there are little bits like that in each of the parts of the story set in different decades, that kind of blur the lines of time-it seems to be on purpose, to me (having been around in all of the story's decades with the exception of the 50s.)
Ok, I found it (it bugged me!) It's the Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic version, narrated by Bernstein, 1960.
Also, she's using an old-fashioned record player. If her timeline was the mid-80s, wouldn't she have been using cassettes (or at least 8-track?) I'm telling ya, it was designed on purpose to have elements from differing decades.