A film about the energy we used to absorb

Take a lesson this film gives about what reality we wish to create. When something happens, do we really want to see it all? Do we want the truth, or just walk away. Do we really want to be part of that energy that makes us uncomfortable and the world it is creating for us? The whole song at the end of the credits says it all, absolutely everything, try not to cry when you realize what this whole film is about.

It's not neatly packaged and sold film that spoon feeds the audience with answers, it leaves so much for the audience to KNOW from their own intuition, there is not one clear answer, answer is within us, it is in fact a very modern trend to include back stories in movies, that's why popular films are so much longer these days as well. People in the old times used more imagination for things that were merely suggested, people talk about graphic violence, that it's more explicit than in the old times, but it's not just that, it is the dialogues, stories, absolutely everything, see it as a reflection of an audience unwilling to engage their own psychic centers, which we all have. But this trend has started slightly changing within the last few years, films like Dunkirk, BFG, Stephanie, Pyewacket, and others are huge groundbreakers setting up a new pattern of story-telling that has not been around since the early 80's.

This film is so powerful and nightmare inducing because it is not creating any mythology about the character or following any twisted conventional narrative, this is not some jump scare film, this is much simpler and closer to real life than movies, because the film asks you to feel what is going on, like you are there, without trying to find who is that villain and so forth, feel the imagery, instead of looking in your mind for back stories or reasons and so forth, people don't do that when they experience such events in real life.

I feel like independent horror films like this have definitely become so much scarier within the last 3 years, to me this film is probably the scariest film I have seen since going to the theatre to see Alien back in 1979. Notice, how the first Alien film has not exactly created any back stories, so little was given to the mind in order to engage the feeling, it was all about the journey to enjoy the imagery.

PS: What happens in this film is within the realm of possibility. The physical realm is only an illusion hiding dozens of dimensions around us. Stranger Things are having an obvious impact on how films are being made these days. This is up there with films like The Entity (1981), it is a film Candyman sort of wanted to be, this is a true masterpiece that goes straight down at you to hit you like a train.