We always imagine there's a more fun, untethered version of ourselves that
exists in a bygone era; trying to access that person is just asking for pain and disappointment.
The Guest is sleek, fun entertainment, a reminder of a
bygone era when an influx of entertaining genre films
existed in greater quantity.
On another occasion, Rothko declared on a radio program that «The myth holds us..., not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some
bygone era, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and
existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.»