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Obsession wasn’t just a horror hit. It became a ritual event.

Audiences didn’t describe the film as merely “scary.”

They described it as contaminating. Traumatizing. Invasive. Something that lingered long after they left the theatre.

So why did this movie affect people so deeply?

Obsession has turned a mirror on Gen Z.

And they are horrified by what they see.

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Lord of the Flies was never just a story about children stranded on an island. It was a theory about human nature itself.

The new television adaptation appears faithful on the surface — same setting, same characters, same descent into violence — but beneath that surface, something fundamental has changed.

Once you see the shift, the entire story looks different.

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Pragmata looks like the return of everything modern gaming abandoned.

A competent male protagonist. Fatherly protectiveness. Sacrifice without irony. A story that treats masculine devotion with sincerity instead of contempt.

And people are responding to it emotionally for a reason.

But beneath the surface, Pragmata is doing something much stranger.

Diana is not simply a child in need of protection. She is something much more subversive.

And Pragmata is far more effective social engineering than any woke entertainment of the the past decade.

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I think The Devil Wears Prada has been wildly misunderstood for twenty years.

It isn’t really about fashion.

It’s about institutions. Prestige. Initiation. The shaping of desire. The quiet reconstruction of identity inside systems that reward usefulness and discard people the moment they stop generating value.

And the sequel changes the meaning of the original film completely.

Miranda Priestly standing before The Last Supper speaking about betrayal. Then seated in the Christ position beneath the painting itself — wearing scales.

The serpent in the sacred seat.

This might be one of the darkest mainstream films I’ve analysed yet, because beneath the luxury and glamour is a remarkably accurate depiction of how power actually functions in modern culture.

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MORTAL KOMBAT 2 went woke.

And somehow…almost everybody loved it.

Not because the film hid the gender inversion. It didn’t. Kitana is the real protagonist, Johnny Cage is the comfort blanket, and the ending literally crowns her queen.

So why did audiences embrace it instead of rejecting it?

Because most people were watching the wrong story.

This video starts with “MK2 went woke” and ends somewhere much stranger: Gnosticism, false gods, Edenia as a fallen paradise, and why modern films keep teaching audiences that kneeling itself is evil.

Fatality!

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You are Johnny Cage.

That’s the real point of my next video.

Not a review. Not trailer breakdown slop. Something much darker.

A generation raised on Hollywood spectacle, gaming, nostalgia, hidden wars, chosen-one fantasies, and the promise that “the power was inside you all along.”

And why that message may have prepared people for the wrong conflict entirely.

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Vivarium is usually described as “suburban horror” or “millennial anxiety.”

That’s true, but it’s not the whole picture.

What the film actually does is more precise.

It builds a world where all the forms of family exist:

a house

a couple

a child

routines

…but none of the meaning survives.

The home isn’t a place—it’s a container. The child isn’t a person—it’s an obligation. Love isn’t present at all—just compliance.

And the most unsettling part is that the film never argues this directly.

It just traps you in that world long enough that it starts to feel… normal.

There’s no “outside.” No neighbours. No countryside. Not even a real sky.

No “above,” either.

Just a closed loop that feeds itself.

And once you’ve experienced that version of things, even briefly, it raises a quiet question that’s hard to shake:

what if this is all there is?

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StarCraft looks like a story about war.

Three factions. Endless conflict. Humanity fighting to survive.

But if you follow the story all the way through — from the original game to Brood War to StarCraft II — something else starts to emerge. A pattern. Every solution the universe offers to suffering comes with the same cost: You don’t get to stay human.

This video breaks down the story underneath StarCraft — not just the plot, but the ideas it’s carrying.

Because beneath the surface, StarCraft isn’t just telling a sci-fi story.

It’s making an argument.

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Everyone says The Last of Us is a story about love. But the longer you sit with it, the more it feels like something else is happening underneath.

In both games, love never really resolves anything—it intensifies, distorts, and spills into violence. Not because the characters are bad people, but because the world they inhabit has lost something essential that would normally give love direction and meaning.

This video explores that idea across both games: how grief, revenge, survival, and attachment all collapse into cycles that no amount of empathy or sacrifice can fully fix.

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The Hero’s Journey is usually treated like a storytelling formula.

A structure. A pattern. A way to build compelling narratives.

But what if it’s more than that?

What if the stories we’ve grown up with—Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter—aren’t just entertainment, but frameworks shaping how we understand identity itself?

The pattern is familiar:

A boy starts as nothing. He’s chosen. He discovers he’s special. He becomes the hero.

It’s powerful. It’s inspiring.

But it raises a deeper question:

If a man becomes a hero by discovering who he already is… what happens when that idea becomes the foundation of identity?

And what happens when that’s the only story we’re told?

This video explores the deeper assumptions behind the Hero’s Journey—and whether it’s quietly reshaping what we believe about authority, meaning, and masculinity.

Curious to hear how others interpret this—do stories shape us more than we realize?

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We tend to think of films like Mario as harmless—bright, fun, and safe for kids.

But stories don’t just pass the time. They shape the way we see the world.

Across these films, Mario presents a particular image of masculinity—one that looks appealing on the surface, but raises deeper questions about fatherhood, identity, and what it actually means to be a man.

This video explores those ideas and why they matter more than we often admit.

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Most people think BioShock is just a critique of freedom.

But it’s doing something much more unsettling.

Across all three games, it keeps the same words—freedom, sacrifice, fatherhood—and strips away what made them true.

The form stays. The meaning disappears.

And what’s left isn’t neutral.

It becomes something else entirely.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was framed as a story about empowerment.

A girl chosen to stand alone. To fight. To save the world.

But the more you actually follow the story, the more something quietly unsettles that idea.

Buffy wins every battle.

So why does she never seem truly happy?

There’s a deeper tension at the heart of the show—between strength and isolation, purpose and identity, power and fulfillment.

What does it really mean to be “empowered” if it doesn’t lead to peace?

I just uploaded a full breakdown exploring this in more depth.

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I finally got around to Project Hail Mary, and I can’t quite shake it.

Everyone talks about the interstellar bromance (which, to be fair, is genuinely great). The relationship between Grace and Rocky is probably one of the most compelling parts of the whole story—two completely different beings figuring each other out, choosing to cooperate, choosing loyalty.

But the more I think about it, the more it feels like the story is doing something deeper… and then stopping just short of it.

The mission itself is a “Hail Mary.” A last desperate attempt. But that phrase originally comes from a prayer—an appeal for help when you’ve reached the end of what you can do yourself.

And the structure of that is still there in the story.

Humanity isn’t enough. So it reaches outward.

And something answers.

But what’s interesting is what answers.

The film gives us something real—connection, sacrifice, even transformation in a sense. But it all happens… laterally. From the side. It helps, it even saves, but it doesn’t quite reach whatever the deeper problem actually is.

So the question I keep coming back to is:

is what answers the cry… actually capable of answering what the cry is for?

I don’t think the story fully resolves that.

And that’s kind of what makes it stick with you.

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Pixar didn’t just make another movie…

From Soul to Inside Out to Turning Red to Luca… and now Hoppers…

There’s a pattern forming across these films.

• You existed before your body • You control your body • You own your body • You’re hidden inside your body • You can leave your body

It sounds extreme at first…

But these stories aren’t just entertainment.

They shape what a generation begins to accept as normal.

Stories don’t argue. They form perception.

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Firefly only ran for 14 episodes — but it became one of the most powerful fan-driven resurrections in TV history.

When Firefly was canceled, fans refused to let it die, launching a movement that eventually led to Serenity and reshaped how Hollywood understands audience power.

But beneath the cult success is a deeper question:

Captain Malcolm Reynolds believed “love keeps her in the air.”

But was he right… or was survival always going to cost more than belief?

This is the story of Firefly, Serenity, and the line between hope and reality in space western storytelling.

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Why did The Housemaid get so much attention before the reviews even came out?

Sydney Sweeney, obviously.

But there’s something deeper going on in The Housemaid, directed by Paul Feig, and Sydney Sweeney is just hiding the hook.

On the surface it’s a psychological thriller about a wealthy household, a mysterious outsider, and a marriage hiding dark secrets. But underneath the genre mechanics, the film is built on a much older storytelling structure — one that shows up again and again across mythology, literature, and modern film.

Once you see the deeper narrative pattern behind The Housemaid, the entire movie starts to look different.