didn’t live up to my expectations, but the parts about his boss working for the demonic embodiment of the plague, and his wife cheating on him with a demon —painting it as sacrificial— were relatable.
Also Dafoe’s character rocks
If this were 2024 he’d have his poor wife admitted to a psychiatric institute for ssris and hard poly-processing therapy.
What Nietzsche said about forgetfulness being an active faculty of the mind to move on so as to have things like happiness, cheerfulness, hope, pride, immediacy, etc.. Memory is like cruelty. Cruelty isn’t some sort of natural violence that is used to explain the history of mankind; cruelty is the movement of culture that is realized in bodies and inscribed on them. The machine of primitive inscription injects the process of production into desire (intravenous drugs) and marks the man…