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Nightmare Alley - Please don't win Best Picture lol

They're Just Movies

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The Cognitive Dissonance Is Interesting

i think that cognitive dissonance is very interesting, and i think that it can make for extremely compelling villains. You want villains who believe that doingthe tty, either they're doing the right thing, or they just have lke, good reasons to do it, or whatever. But my problem isn't that that is the case, because i like that in certain characters. My problem is that the movie, in framing them, fails to make them seem like the bad guy. And when you show people characters that are horrible and without some sort of ike takeaway of like, don't worry, the film makers know that they're horrible, i think that boon feeding themy something he

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