i think what adds to that is how casually everything escalates. his behavior becomes more extreme, but it feels more like a natural progression than any psychological break. when it comes to unreliable pov films it’s one of the most interesting ive seen

for example the scene where he breaks into langford’s home with rita, for a hot minute i genuinely thought it was one of his bs sequences until i noticed the other characters were not “on script” so to speak. it really did catch me off guard

something i really liked abt this movie was how seamlessly pupkin’s delusions fit into his reality that at some point its hard to distinguish between them. like at the beginning it feels easy because of how outlandish his daydreams are, but at around the midpoint its less certain

6. The King of Comedy (1982) 💜

actually thought he was kinda funny not even gonna lie

one of those cases of "this character reads overwhelmingly as trans but the person writing them clearly does not see them as such on any serious level"

i liked it. it further solidified in my mind that a medical career is not my fate, not that i was considering it. and i'll have you know ive become something of a dr. mel king fan

5. The Pitt season 1 (2025)

this is top shelf "watching shit in the living room with my mom" television

his personality is vulnerable and naive in a very amuro way as well. not cynical as kamille or as assertive as judau

uso being 13 just makes it so much worse for him too

yesssssssss i have. zabine was preddy cool

dude is introduced and gets immediately humiliated by a teenager in a physical altercation. the soul of messa lives on in the universal century