Their work's often have elements of magical realism.
What is magical realism you ask? In it's most simple terms it is a genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting.
Off hand it could be said that Lohan's movie choices contain magical realism by chance, that she has no agenda in choosing these films, however I beg to differ, their frequent occurence suggests that she in fact selects these films in order to make a point. Examples of this intended selection are films like "Herbie the love bug", "Freaky Friday" and the recent film "Stroke of Luck" (or whatever the hell it's called). As Mr. Marquez once stated "My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic" but analysing her films, this could have just as easily been uttered by Lohan. She like Rushdie and Marquez seeks to describe her reality and comunicate it as an artist. She through her own choices in films, tries to describe and comunicate her world, and she feels the best way to do so is through the use of magical realism as a genre. Like Rushdie using physical transformations in the chracters to describe mental states and alienation in the Satanic Verses, Lohan uses character switching in "Freaky Friday", to describe the human condition and the weight of the ego. So next time you think of her as the next Tara Reid burnout, remember her contributions to the magical realism genre.
