Marty Supreme was excellent. Similar to Good Time, including in its intense throbbing soundtrack and bright lighting. I’d say that Good Time was more of a tour de force, but Marty Supreme was just as good in its own way. The only thing I didn’t get was why the soundtrack was loaded with songs from the 80s. Was this supposed to represent that the events were being interpreted from the perspective of their child, looking back from that later decade? Also, near the very beginning there was a jarring anachronism when Marty describes something as being in somebody’s DNA. They wouldn’t have said that in 1952. At first I thought this was just a slip-up in the script that didn’t get caught by anyone, but now I’m wondering if it was on purpose, a hint that the entire movie is an imaginative reconstruction from thirty years later.
I’m pretty sure there was a jet transport taking off in the background (out of focus) when they had landed in the private plane at Haneda in Tokyo. Not to mention that a DC3 wasn’t going to make a trans-Pacific run.
But a good movie anyway.
I like music a lot, and 80’s music is perhaps special to me in a way because it’s what I associate most with “my youth” or “being young” or something like that. This may be a bit odd in my case, because I sometimes have the idea that for many other people the music they associate with that specific time or feeling of “their youth” might be when they were in their adolescent years.
For me, the 80’s are before those adolescent years and are likely connected to me hearing much more music on the radio after I bought a second had radio-cassette player with my pocket money when I was about 6 years old or so. I can remember hearing “Islands in the Stream” by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, and lots more 80’s music. I now listen to music during most of the day. I think it does something to, or for, me concerning some state of mind. Some sort of way to relax, or put my mind at ease. Something like that would be my best guess.
Anyway, 80’s music! I did a quick search as a result of your post and came across the following website which might answer some of your questions regarding the use of 80’s music in the movie:
https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/marty-supreme-80s-explained-cut-ending-music-1235171388/
“At one point, it was in the script that the movie should be told from a point of view looking back at your youth,” said Safdie. “So the movie really is from Marty’s point of view in the ’80s when he’s at a Tears for Fears’ concert with his granddaughter, and he’s hearing the lyrics, ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World,’ and he’s thinking about the confidence of youth, the lack of understanding of consequences of youth, the individualist wave that youth can jolt into you. So that really was the foundation of the sonic landscape.”
There was also a quick transition shot where they were flying in a DC-6 but the foley seemed to be a jet airliner.
Safdie himself apparently said “the movie is a little bit about seeing your parents before you were born.”
https://x.com/brofromanother/status/2004967073999438311?s=20