People who ruminate on how different their life would supposedly be if they could relive their teen years with the knowledge they have now… honey you can have that life you speak of RIGHT NOW TODAY
If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think
The reason you’re unhappy is that you haven’t found the right thing to buy. There’s something out there you can purchase that will make this all go away
Thought this girl was Woke 1.0 (kill all men) so i tried "you're always right" gimmick, but she was actually Woke 2.0 (anti-bioessentialism) and i gave her the ick
Obsession goes even colder than this.
Rewatch the opening monologue after the ending. It stops sounding like love. "You're in every song I listen to." "I'd choose you over everything." We've heard those exact sentences in a hundred rom-coms, always scored with strings, always rewarded with a kiss in the rain. I think Bear is speaking the language we’ve been taught to recognize as love.
And then the film asks what happens if you actually mean those words. It turns that poetry into behavior. Someone who thinks about you constantly. Someone for whom you're in every song. Someone who would choose you over everything. Even her own self. That person is post-wish Nikki.
She's not a corruption of the romantic ideal. She’s the romantic ideal, performed faithfully. The horror isn't that the wish went wrong. It's that the wish went right. That's the horror.
when I was 17, the most embarrassing thing imaginable happened to me and somehow, even after more than a decade of new disasters, it still remains as the single most humiliating moment of my entire life.