DirtyCurryCell
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Fiction portrays the fears, anxieties and social norms of a time period. This is specially true with Genre Fiction. Movies like Terminator were portraying anxieties of rapidly advancing technology. Movies like Friday the 13th and Halloween shows social anxieties about teenagers getting drunk and having sex.
The movie in question is actually so good, that I recomend everyone reading this watch it first. Don't look for the trailer or the poster, get it from piratebay, and start watching. The tittle of the movie is: Better Watch Out
SPOILERS AHEAD !
Horror-Slasher movies are an interesting case study. Because in all of them(All of the good ones anyway), all the sex havers and the drunks get killed off one by one. Until it's finally the virgin girl who is left alive. And finally the Virgin girl escapes the slasher. What this shows (And this is not because these movie were good, but also because they became commercial scuccesses) is that society still values innocence and purity. Specially sexual innocence and purity.
NOW! You'd think that the twenty first century being so "sexually liberated" would have horror movies where the one who survives is the school slut who gets gang banged every night. But I haven't seen such movies. Which makes Better Watch Out all the more interesting.
Because the slasher/villain in this movie is more or less an incel. While the girl that survives is a virgin.
The plot of this movie is as follows. There's a 14 year old kid whose oneitis is his 17 year old baby sitter. On christmas he sets things up for his friend to break into his house so he can save her. The idea is that with the fear chemicals running through her brain and him saving her, she'll start to view him in a sexual way. Things go south and he ends up tying her up, interrogating her and this point, she reveals that she's a virgin. And the kid goes "Bullshit. Everyone knows you skrewed [ex bf-chad]". And she says "No. I broke up with him because he went around telling everyone that."
One thing leads to another and he ends up killing her ex bf, her current bf, his best friend and finally the oneitis, and covers it up. But it's revealed that the oneitis made it out alive and the movie ends with her flipping him off as she's carried in a stretcher and he watches from his bedroom window. A post credit scene shows him telling his mum that he wants to go to the hospial to see his oneitis, hence sequel baiting and implying that he'll finish the job.
Now! The first and most obvious thing is, this character is an incel. Or rather a generalized version of an incel. It's not a real incel, just how society thinks incels are. Immature, spoiled.etc Ofc the character is a pretty boy. So I'm sure a lot of you are gonna disagree with this. But my point is, that it shows that incels have become the new boogeymen. And the fact that the oneitis is revealed to be a virgin shows that virginity, innocence and purity in females are still valued. ATLEAST SUBCONSCIOUSLY.
Concluding Thoughts:
Even though we're villified and feared by the general public, the same public values the same things that we value.
The movie in question is actually so good, that I recomend everyone reading this watch it first. Don't look for the trailer or the poster, get it from piratebay, and start watching. The tittle of the movie is: Better Watch Out
SPOILERS AHEAD !
Horror-Slasher movies are an interesting case study. Because in all of them(All of the good ones anyway), all the sex havers and the drunks get killed off one by one. Until it's finally the virgin girl who is left alive. And finally the Virgin girl escapes the slasher. What this shows (And this is not because these movie were good, but also because they became commercial scuccesses) is that society still values innocence and purity. Specially sexual innocence and purity.
NOW! You'd think that the twenty first century being so "sexually liberated" would have horror movies where the one who survives is the school slut who gets gang banged every night. But I haven't seen such movies. Which makes Better Watch Out all the more interesting.
Because the slasher/villain in this movie is more or less an incel. While the girl that survives is a virgin.
The plot of this movie is as follows. There's a 14 year old kid whose oneitis is his 17 year old baby sitter. On christmas he sets things up for his friend to break into his house so he can save her. The idea is that with the fear chemicals running through her brain and him saving her, she'll start to view him in a sexual way. Things go south and he ends up tying her up, interrogating her and this point, she reveals that she's a virgin. And the kid goes "Bullshit. Everyone knows you skrewed [ex bf-chad]". And she says "No. I broke up with him because he went around telling everyone that."
One thing leads to another and he ends up killing her ex bf, her current bf, his best friend and finally the oneitis, and covers it up. But it's revealed that the oneitis made it out alive and the movie ends with her flipping him off as she's carried in a stretcher and he watches from his bedroom window. A post credit scene shows him telling his mum that he wants to go to the hospial to see his oneitis, hence sequel baiting and implying that he'll finish the job.
Now! The first and most obvious thing is, this character is an incel. Or rather a generalized version of an incel. It's not a real incel, just how society thinks incels are. Immature, spoiled.etc Ofc the character is a pretty boy. So I'm sure a lot of you are gonna disagree with this. But my point is, that it shows that incels have become the new boogeymen. And the fact that the oneitis is revealed to be a virgin shows that virginity, innocence and purity in females are still valued. ATLEAST SUBCONSCIOUSLY.
Concluding Thoughts:
Even though we're villified and feared by the general public, the same public values the same things that we value.