taylor kitsch only worked on the 2012 film savages
thus for olalquiaga melancholic kitsch is able to function as a benjaminian dialectical image an object whose decayed state exposes and reflects its utopian possibilities a remnant constantly reliving its own death a ruin
 far from denying death melancholic kitsch can only function through a recognition of its multiple deaths as a fragmentary remembrance that is subsequently commodified and reproduced