31, pan, he/him (probably??)
Just posting about the cool stuff I vibe with. Movies, games, warhammer, music, gay shit, the death of capitalism, things like that
I'm depressed man, I think I have been for a long fuckin time, maybe over a decade even. The weight of this is profound and hard to shift, don't know what to do with it.
Anyway, that's the context for a lot of the shit I post, you've been warned
Right, I'm still watching Chainsmoker Cat. My ability to turn a twenty three minute episode of tv into a god damn Russian novel of tedium should be analyzed
From that angle, I think he's a subtler, newer, more specifically Gen z feeling I guess, take on characters driven by lust, and shame towards that lust, but the lust wins out because they have to have CONTROL
It's better for the movie as a complete work that he's more of an anti-villain that had a chance if it wasn't for small but crucial character flaws that grow tumorous over the course of the film. Works better as a "scared straight" character for a lot of guys, which I think he is
A lot of women (and some men) seem to think the โmale loneliness crisisโ and โincelsโ are largely represented by the character of this movie who has social job, goes drinking with his friends and a girl has a crush on him
This is what they think guys are complaining about
there's a strong sense of shame in his face here, he knows what he's doing, how depraved it is. If he was truly 1 dimensional, not truly capable of recognizing the violation that's occurring here, the movie's just not as effective at making you understand how it gets *like that*
You know the context of using illegal narcotics in Japan, you can fill in the blanks of the sad and shitty circumstances of Yaku's life based on the *absence* of interiority
And it still kinda sorta *doesn't*, it feels very pointed and specific that Yani's neighbor immediately shuts down any and all probing of the sort with the fortune teller later, and that the episode finds ways to obfuscate what is clearly just supposed to be synecdoche for heroin
Think this Depressed Addict Cat Lady show might actually be a fucking masterpiece after only two episodes, read me and my life journey so far like fucking filth, absolutely was not prepared for this, holy shit
My brain does the extra work of filling in the gaps of how shitty her life be, *specifically* because of that lack of interiority given to her that I, as an audience member, know is because you can be fucking unpersoned in Japan for having a baggie of coke
Actually y'know what, the way she very specifically shuts down the conversation of whether she's doing anything *illegal* is a clever, culturally specific feeling, way to do it
Bear's use of AI is meant to signal a deeply intellectually incurious *void* within him. You can use that element of him to critically think about other aspects of his personality, and eeeeeverything starts to make a little more sense. Just felt I should point that out