Far from the easy and tired bromides about this being a love letter to cinema, The Fabelmans is more specifically Spielberg's love letter to the human struggles of parenting in Post-WWII America. Oddly enough, this marks the second 2022 semi-autobiographical film detailing this era from an esteemed American auteur. Linklater's Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood also touched upon similar themes and sensibilities (both having grown up in a large, middle-class white family in suburban, 1960s America).
In both…