🧠 Laurie
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Jamie Lee Curtis’ word is law.
I want to just put out a BIG disclaimer that I don’t at all see Michael and Laurie’s dynamic as anything that transcends antagonism. Just because Michael’s perception is completely warped into believing Laurie is ‘made for him’ (and I mean this in the sense of feeling entitled to her as a human being, not in the romanticised way -- even though he may see it as that), the reason I get so hype about the connection that Jamie references is because it’s Michael enforcing this dangerous belief he has and Laurie putting him in his place. This musty mouth-breather belongs behind bars!! Anyway, I consider it a Default State of Michael’s constitution that he is impervious to attacks in a conventional sense, as in he cannot actually feel severe pain unless it is inflicted upon him by Laurie. Within the Entity’s realm there’s leeway with this (any survivor who knows Decisive Strike means Laurie has passed on the perk, and there’s a degree of Entity intervention that means anyone he obsesses over can hurt him grievously), but for the most part, when wounded by others -- he requires being shot six times or hit by a car for his body to ‘shut down’, soon after he will get back up again and there’s no fatal evidence of blood loss or broken bones to deter him. With Laurie, however, he recoils at a coat-hanger wire piercing his eye -- which leaves him half-blind. There is a selective fatality to Michael’s wounds and scars, of which Laurie controls. Her ability to inflict pain on him further feeds his self-scribed doctrine that she’s the only person who speaks his language. His obsession with her was first triggered not only for the reasons Jamie states -- Laurie’s singing and her being the opposite of his sister, but also because this was the first person who profoundly resonated with his blue-print for an emotional response after he broke out of Smith’s Grove. After fifteen years of routine indifference, passing curiosities at most, being surrounded by sanitized white walls, all of a sudden he returns to his Haddonfield and it is alight with every burning color of fall. From inside his empty home that has suffered years of superstition and neglect, he witnesses Laurie brushing off any deterrent that the house is haunted; placing the key to his door down on his front step before saying goodbye to the boy she babysits. And then he hears her singing idly to herself with the lyrics Jamie recites in the linked video... the effect of this scene, to him, carries an all-consuming light he cannot turn away from but is as dangerous as staring into the sun. He inherently associates Laurie with the heady feeling of freedom, and why exactly he wants to be free from the control of others, hence why he’s so tenacious with his pursuit of Her... even though he doesn’t deserve to be free in any sense whatsoever. Laurie directly evolves from 1978 to 2018 in spite of the idealism and reductionist symbolism Michael displaces onto her, proven in the meticulous choreography of her own home being a trap built solely for him. Whatever blood-red strings of fate there are that Michael pulls taut between them, Laurie is using to tie him down :^)