strangeness

The Joshua tree’s strangeness shifted from repulsive to striking.

"I think one of the reasons people resonate with the Addams family so much is their strangeness," Ortega reflects.

“What’s happened to the movies, which were filled with ambiguity and intimate strangeness a few short years ago, but now are crammed with spaceships and sharks?”

“There’s a sadness in the reason the film is surviving, because its warnings and its insights about the strangeness of techno-capitalism are becoming more relevant over time,” says Rivera.

That was probably fine for this show to the faithful, and no one working today can match the mercurial strangeness of Carti’s complete vision.