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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

So, I recently watched and fell in love with The Thing. I LOVE the theme of "You don't know who the monster could be. You can't trust anyone." I've also listened to one or two horror stories with the same kind of theme.

So I am looking for anymore movies/books/tv/fic/games where the protagonist(s) can't trust the world around them. Bonus if they can't even trust their own minds (ex. they are drugged so what they are seeing could be false).

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[aboutelle]

I just started reading "Splinter" by Sebastian Fitzek. It's about a guy who feels so guilty about causing the death of his family that he volunteers for a psychiatric experiment altering his memory and apparently that fucks him up pretty seriously. Might be something you're interested in... I just started it so I can't say if it's good but I've read a lot of other books by Fitzek and never been disappointed.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

It has pretty food reviews. It sounds like a combination of The Machinist and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[(Anonymous)]

PKD's your fix. Specifically "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "Valis," "Minority Report," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."

Also the Rotoscope(sp?) movie of Through a Scanner Darkly, with Keanu Reeves. Actually on par with the original, which is something I never thought I would say.

Basically, anything written by Philip K. Dick.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

Oh! Thank you! One of the stories I listened to, Sylvia's Blood was based off of a PKD's story. And I remember thinking I should read some of his stuff. Now I know that I must!

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Somewhat less paranoid but equally brain-bendy along your requirements would be "The Lathe of Heaven" (Ursula LeGuin). Avoid the movies. All of them. Yes, all of them.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, someone else reads Ursula LeGuin. :D

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[ex_earthshaker594]

My first thought was Perfect Blue (when Black Swan came out there was some buzz about it borrowing from Perfect Blue, to get an idea of what it's like), but a more approachable (read: "less likely to keep you up at night") Kon work that handles similar themes might be Paprika. I've also heard great things about Paranoia Agent.

If it doesn't have to be horror, C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces does a good job of playing around with this. My mind's sort of blanking on anything better, sorry :c

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

I actually own Perfect Blue on DVD and love it! Paprika is great too. I have only seen a bit of Paranoia Agent. I'll have to get it another look.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[ex_earthshaker594]

I hope you enjoy it! It's on my back-burner for now.

I really enjoyed every Kon movie I watched, but I'm glad my Perfect Blue viewing was during the day. The psychological stuff was manageable, but Me-Mania definitely wasn't.

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding Phillip K Dick, and movies based on Phillip K Dick. GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a pretty amusing humorous Edwardian novel based on a similar premise. It's also one of the basic ideas of X-Files (Trust No One) and gets iterated in different ways in a lot of episodes, including one that's pretty much an explicit ripoff of The Thing.

Also, if you want some more recs, it might be worthwhile to try digging around these pages:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/paranoia
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/perception

Re: Media with a "Paranoia because you can't trust anything not even your own mind" theme

[kaijinscendre]

Thank you! I'll give them a look through. :D