Kate Bush saved "Strange Things."

This is the most exciting moment of the year on TV

More than the Netflix hit series brought back to mind the immortal eighties hit, it's the song that mentioned where her beating heart was, why the masses were captivated in the first place by a bunch of Hawkins boys with too much free time to look for trouble, and how much music can heal and save lives in adolescence

Nadav Menuhin

10/06/2022

Friday, 10 June 2022, 00:20 Updated: 05:33

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"Strange Things" Trailer - Season 4 (Netflix)

The meeting between Kate Bush and the protagonists of the series "Strange Things" is the most beautiful, exciting, powerful and interesting moment on television this year.

Just like that.

Many have already noticed his effect, and there are figures that back him up: the hit that is at the center of the scene, "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush, has come back to life among a new generation of millennials who have never heard of it.

In 1985, the song reached number 30 on the Billboard sales charts, and is now in eighth place on the same charts, almost forty years after its release.

But more than the series contributed to Kate Bush, her amazing song saved the series.

This scene is reminiscent of why the masses were captured in the first place in the beating heart of a bunch of Hawkins boys with too much free time to look for trouble in it;

And how much music can save lives and heal in the most painful moments of all.

Most of all, in this scene alone lie the elements that explain the fourth season of "Strange Things," and perhaps the entire series.

The most beautiful scene this year on TV.

From "Strange Things" (Photo: Netflix)

It's a particularly scary scene, and on the face of it an seemingly inevitable, violent and graphic ending is expected - and the death in the new season of "Strange Things" is very graphic.

There is nowhere to run.

Out of the cemetery, the lost Max faces Alone in front of Acne, the main villain from the upside down this season, who seems unstoppable.

The key to fighting it is unclear, and Max is smart, sharp and cool - but barely 15 years old.

Acne marked the prey, deceiving in its perception of reality, and all that was left for it was to capture the victim definitively.

What exactly is acne?

The plot solution to this question comes at the end of the first part of the season, but is not what materially changes.

Disassembled and assembled: This is a powerful sorcerer, a human doubter, who manages to get into the heads of his adolescent victims.

He recognizes their greatest anxieties and repressed feelings of guilt until they drown in the content.

As they rise, it thrives - until they take over everything.

Mental distortion is also horribly expressed in physical distortion, but it is of course a symbol: this mental process breaks young people to such an extent that it is no longer possible to identify the normative, outwardly strong people who were before.

In other words: Acne is a metaphor for acute depression.

Is the embodiment of all the psychic demons that people, especially young people, carry on their backs.

Is the abomination and self-destruction, which can rage with unbridled appetite at the ages of an emotional roller coaster, to the point of real destruction.

He is the greatest enemy of boys and girls who have already accumulated more trauma and more trauma.

And he beats everyone in the cursed Hawkins, Kabbalists and freaks, nerds and athletes.

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After all, "Strange Things", despite all the criticism of last season, is not a series about monsters or the Cold War, and even if it becomes a great parody of the suburbs of America, the 80s and the cinematic representation of all these - not where her heart is.

Is a series about growing up and the never-ending challenges of this journey, which is simply aided by a world of horror movie images.

On an indifferent adult establishment, social pressure, bullying and boycott - and on the ability of societies to survive all of these.

This is what makes it beautiful.

Run up the hill

And here we come to Max's favorite song, "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush, which she hears endlessly in the Walkman headphones (Generation Z among us, it's hard to explain. Go to Wikipedia to check, even for your predecessors it was already irrelevant technology ).

Not coincidentally, this song expresses everything she feels, as someone who alone carries the blame for the death of her brother Billy - unjustly - and finds it difficult to share with her friends, led by the new ex Lucas, pain, loneliness and confusion.

"Do you want to know how it feels?", She asks herself to her friends.

"You do not want to hit me, but look how deep the bullet is."

If only this deal could be made, switch between perspectives so they can understand what's really going on inside.

Acne recognizes this pain, which is why Max shuts down and gets lost within herself.

When she's in front of Billy's grave, he tricks her, and finally captures her.

Outwardly it is a loop or trance from which there is no way out.

Inwardly she is in hell.

Just before it's lost, Dustin realizes thanks to a tip from Nancy and Robin that he has something to do.

He runs to her, finds out what her favorite song is, finds Kate Bush's tape and plays it to Max.

And suddenly something happens.

Because when her friends play her the song she loves the most, they see her.

Suddenly someone shares these hidden feelings.

Then she manages to do the impossible - she manages to escape the demon: to run down the road, and harder - to run up such a high hill, and return home.

In the background Kate Bush sings, and the electronic sounds strike emotionally on the screen.

Acne does not let up easily, he drops rocks and obstacles, but Max draws strength from the song, and manages to get back to herself.

This song saved her life.

The war with acne is still long.

Max will stay with headphones for a long time, until she's protected from the monster.

But the song has already won, as only music can be with you in the most powerful moments of adolescence.

Down the road, up the hill, until you feel understood.

In the face of it will stand no whipping of his brains and demagogues, nor anything strange in the world.

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