I don't think it's a period piece because it's set in the same general time period that it was released, but the pandemic references definitely do fix it in time, so anyone watching the movie in the future will know exactly when it came out. Kind of like how You've Got Mail was a contemporary movie in 1998, but if you watch it now, you definitely know it came out in that time period when everyone was all excited about dialing up AOL.
Very true. I probably used period piece too liberally. Adding Covid or masking seems like a conscious choice that will date the movie but Covid has been such a large part of our daily lives that it seems somewhat disingenuous to ignore it in a film clearly set in 2020-2021 and maybe beyond … but then again do we really want to see that?
I don't think it's a period piece because it's set in the same general time period that it was released, but the pandemic references definitely do fix it in time, so anyone watching the movie in the future will know exactly when it came out. Kind of like how You've Got Mail was a contemporary movie in 1998, but if you watch it now, you definitely know it came out in that time period when everyone was all excited about dialing up AOL.
Very true. I probably used period piece too liberally. Adding Covid or masking seems like a conscious choice that will date the movie but Covid has been such a large part of our daily lives that it seems somewhat disingenuous to ignore it in a film clearly set in 2020-2021 and maybe beyond … but then again do we really want to see that?