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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Then watch the rest of the movie

Co-sign, it was very good.

I noticed many commonalities with other media, which I will lay out non-exhaustively under a spoiler tag below. I welcome any additional such commonalities you or anyone else might be able to point out:

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Apprentice To Murder – A minor goes on trial for violence they did not instigate then upon release goes on to live in the city with their girlfriend

Nightmare On Elm Street II: Freddy’s Revenge – Anxiety related to and around homosexuality sublimated into threats from bladed instruments

Una Mujer Fantástica – A Queer person has to ignore horrific anti-Queer abuse they are directly subjected to lest they face additional worse abuse

Mommy Dearest – An overbearing mother figure slaps her child

Friday The 13th part 3-D – Red fabric and a rapid frame cut is used to imply blood resulting from a head injury

Empire Record – A person acting slutty and offering sex in an attempt at gaining intimate connection is dismissively instructed to preform fellatio instead

The photography of Eugeny Hramenkov – a person is forced to drink milk

A Clockwork Orange – People add drugs to milk

Clerks II – A person drops a ring on the ground as a way to deride the person in front of them

Misery – A caregiver intentionally keeps their charge infirmed to keep them around

Grandmother’s House – A person faces violence and misinformation about their mother at an initially unfamiliar relative’s house at which they are left

Meet Your Meat – A filthy pig gets shot with a gun

Harold and Maude – An older woman kisses a younger man

Johnny Mnemonic – After a lethal struggle with an adversary seemingly ends, the prior threat subsequently moves while being just garbage

Breakfast Club – A character considers it appropriate to consume things directly out of the carton

Mac and Me – Someone loses control of a wheeled conveyance and plummets off a cliff

Psycho – A killer converses with a dead body

Arsenic and Old Lace – An elderly woman keeps a body she is responsible for the death of in her basement

Revenge of the Nerds – A character coming across a condom is less-than-thrilled about the use to which the person in possession of the condom intends the condom to be put

Juwanna Mann – An aunt disapproves of her nephew playing on a basketball team