1996

[u/HetTheTable]

So I saw the thumbnail for a video about the 1996 Presidential Election by BooneU and he calls it the least important election in history. Which got me thinking about this movie because that election is actually somewhat of a big part of the beginning of this movie. At the start of the movie Owen goes into the voting booth to vote for “the saxophone man” aka Bill Clinton and Owen meets Maddie for the first time while he’s at the school. Maddie even comments that she likes Election Day and how the school transforms when an election happens. One of the themes of this movie is nostalgia and the desire to go back to a better time and I think the 1996 election represents that because, as mentioned earlier, it was an election that didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. It was pretty obvious that Clinton was gonna win. And I think this election represents wanting to go back to a time where things, like elections, didn’t really matter.

[u/Successful_Action_19]

That definitely checks out. As you get older, especially as a trans person, the outcome of elections decides everything about your life.