Sometimes someone will get it in their heads to challenge themselves by saying "Let's take an objective evil thing to do and make the person who does it problematic" And not even evil in the melodramatic supervillain sense but evil in the petty, contemptible, disgusting sense
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Not someone who starts a war and kills millions of people or someone who steals billions of dollars but, like, the kind of person who catfishes grieving families pretending to have been close to the deceased because it makes them feel important and seen
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(This actually happens, in real life, all the time, it is an extremely common pathological symptom of the digital age) And the reactions to it are always polarized
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Between people who are like "Oh wow it's so deep that you took someone so horrible and unsympathetic and you made them sympathetic, it highlights our shared humanity all the more" And people grounded in reality all "Goddammit I just want to beat the shit out of Evan"
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And it's time to admit that although I think the latter set of people have the healthier and more realistic POV, I'm in the former group and I always have been
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Like I loved I, Tonya even though John Mulaney's joke about trying to imagine Nancy Kerrigan being told there was an award winning movie "about how you're not the real victim" was completely on point
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Like okay full disclosure my audition monologue for years was from this obscure one-man show I read in a book about a creepy stalker It was the same plot as One Hour Photo with Robin Williams, a dude who becomes obsessed with a customer whose photos he's been stealing copies of
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It's the same (terrible, morally bankrupt) logic as Dear Evan Hansen It isn't doing her any harm because she doesn't know about it, and this is the only happiness in this guy's life He's incapable of genuine relationship and this fantasy is the only thing keeping him alive
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That awful aching feeling of "Of course this is disgusting and awful and yet it makes me feel so GOOD" I guess I've always been obsessed with plots about relationships based on fantasy and lies (LaBute's In the Company of Men/The Shape of Things duology, et al)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I gotta ask, where did your head land at the end of Swiss Army Man (if you've seen it)?
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