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A really post-modern sort of filmmaker, were he making a 50s melodrama, would have wanted you to notice that he left issues OUT of the movies just like they did in the 50s, thus condemning the art form as part of the problem for ignoring the issues. I think it's called "conspicuous lack" or something like that. Haynes instead made a 50s melodrama that seriously and directly addressed these issues. That to me seems like an attempt to validate the form while condemning the perspective it previously had used to present.
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