Oops I did it again.

This time instead of rambling off the cuff I sat down and wrote 5 and a half pages on some of my thoughts, because... you know.. I'm a card carrying member of the elite cultural intelligentsia class. Right?

I start off by comparing the 2022 film Barbarian thematically and stylistically to Shyamalan's oeuvre thus far; and then I go on a tangent unpacking some of the gender politics and depictions of masculinity in the film which we all know people are super chill about in the year of our Lord 2025 so buckle up I guess.

I set this one to drop exactly a week later at 2:17 am again even though that reference doesn't even make sense for this movie, but what are ya gonna do?

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