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Sick! You decided to listen to me even more :) If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you probably didn’t read part 1, so here’s a link:  https://bramsfunblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/spooped-babadook-part-1.html Alright! So where to start? I don’t know rhetorical Bram, why don’t you decide? (Tricked you- both of those sentences were actua lly rhetorical Bram!) Shenans aside, there’s a lot to talk about because there are a lot of ways you can take this movie. Signs this movie needed to be spooped: Mr. Babadook the LGBTQ+ icon Here are a few ways you can look at it: 1) it’s just a scary story. It doesn’t mean anything. 2) Amelia is the protagonist, who is being haunted for some reason. 3) Samuel is the protagonist, who is being f orced to grow up because his mom is the true piece of sqib in the story. It’s a coming of age story 4) This one’s my favorite to think about. Mr. Babadook is the protagonist! Say what?!? How? You’ll see :) 5) Some minor character is t

Not sure why they're in a mirror, but I dig the aesthetic N This is the first post in a new “series” I’m planning to start in which I reanalyze movies to look for juicy, spoopy nuggets of wisdom. As you have probably guessed from the title, this post is about the movie “The Babadook,” directed by Jennifer Kent (yay! A female horror movie director!), which is one of my favorite horror movies. I like it so much that I’ve watched it 3 times even though it gives me a panic attack to watch, which speaks both to its merits as a horror movie and to how horrorble (sorry, couldn’t resist) I am at watching scary things. If you haven’t seen the movie, this blog will spoil it for you, so probably don’t read if you have even the slightest interest in ever seeing it. It’s on Netflix, so go watch it. I’ll wait. I’m literally just ASCII characters in a computer; I won’t be insulted (actually I will- ASCII characters have feelings too- but I’ve got good coping mechanisms like deciding t

The boy himself. Strong contender for the world's greatest mustache-wearer Anyone who knows me knows that I am absolutely obsessed with Nietzche, who I feel has been unjustly demonized both by religious people (who are so offended by "God is dead" that they stop listening, which is understandable. He could have phrased it differently) and by others who view him as a Nazi-sympathizer (which from the massive amount of study I've done seems to be because his sister Elisabeth was a Nazi and borrowed her brother's work in one of the most grotesque misappropriations the world has ever seen). Sorry (not actually- rhetorical sorry, but it's the thought that counts, right?), I'm a hard-core Nietzche fan and am deeply fascinated with his ideas. In my opinion, if someone read his "Thus spoke Zarathustra" and Simone de Beauvoir's "Ethics of Ambiguity," that would pretty well capture my perspective of what Existentialism is. Sorry, Sartr