A Fisher's Point on E John Carpenter's the Thing

The original halloween is about this kind of nameless violence that exists the surface of bourgeois domesticity, right? Suburbia. Is this kind of perfect enclave of like, normative capitalist values,. But all of this, there is this kind of like ontological void, which is michael myers who one day can kind of, like literally smash down the door and murder your parents in front of you. So i think that that's a really valuable and kind of like rich source of talking about a suburbia where it seems very removed from the kind of... The violence of capitalism gets obspicated, gets gets kind of drawn behind a veil when, wheno, when you

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