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Friday Fun Thread for March 3, 2023

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I thought it was okay but found the universal praise for it as a life-changing or philosophically enlightening experience a little odd.

For people who’ve never had existential epiphanies about mortality while imagining participating in pulp SF, it’s probably a life-changer. There’s a body-horror aspect that reminds me of Cronenberg films like Existenz, and a stepping into higher worlds like The Thirteenth Floor, culminating in zen rock garden world.

For me, the dramatic core was in the Boomer workaholic mom confronting her Millennial daughter’s suicidal nihilism, and finding a way through against all odds. It struck me as Important, as the teenage girl suicide rates have shot up during the Facebook/Instagram decade.

Her confrontation with her own and her father’s heteronormative assumptions is also Important, because orgasms cause some of the most passionate, real, joyful, and shameful emotions a human can experience. To ignore those feelings while judging actions is to miss the entire point.

That's fair. I had assumed that the issues presented in the film were ones that most people worked through on their own at a young age, as I did, but that clearly isn't the case and if it helps some people along then all the better.