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Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is Darby Getting Off on Her Exploitation?

The film plays with that theme and that it's sort of inevitable. But at the same time, you know, it's kind of almost, it's so obvious that it's like, well, well, yeah,. I don't even think people are saying or well, they're just showing her as sort of a girl with daddy issues who wanted a baby and didn't get a baby. She had daddy issues like every person would and every person does to a greater or less an extent; but anyone who grew up without parents would have daddy issues. And she also has this fantasy about wanting to sleep with her dad. That is everywhere. We can't, we can't escape it.

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