[ SECRET POST #3809 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3809 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Solstice]



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[Martin Starr, Spider-Man: Homecoming]


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[MacGyver (2016)]











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Comments

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

How much media there is in horror films where the monster is a metaphor for the main character's mental illness.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

Which movies? I agree with you, but the only thing that comes to mind is Lights Out.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

Just off the top of my head: Split. Psycho. Copycat.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really consider Split a horror movie, especially with the twist ending. Psycho is actually about an ill murderer, there's no metaphor. I haven't seen Copycat.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure how Psycho fits into this category. Norman Bates can't be the metaphor for his own mental illness, surely? Bates' character is loosely based off of Ed Gein, an actual serial killer. No metaphor there, either.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely no metaphor in Psycho.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

The Babadook.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

This is, ironically, exactly what I just watched that sparked this, but I know it's not the only one.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the Babadook was a metaphor for grief? Is there another interpretation?

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I've seen it interpreted as a metaphor for depression.

CW: Animal Death

[(Anonymous)]

Grief alone doesn't make you nearly kill your kid and actually kill your dog.

A psychotic break that, while stemming from grief, is still a mental illness and does.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

"Mental illness is good and pure, I love and cherish my mental illness, I would never compare it to a loathsome thing that would make my life easier if it went away forever uwu"

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I just get tired of it being treated like it's this horrible, murdering monster that it turns me into. There's a middle ground. Mental illness is shit, but damn it's still part of me and it's not some horrifying monster it turns me into like it's not me.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[cakemage]

My thoughts exactly.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

So many video games are using this trope these days.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

So many people are misreading things as metaphors for mental illness these days.

Re: Things that stick in your craw

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, it's not misreading. Sorry, but it's common. When the entire thing ends on the revelation that monster was really just a manifestation of the main character's mental illness, it's pretty shitty.