I find most themes, tropes, and narratives to all kind of be a “different flavor of the same soup base,” and I adore making parallels where there may not be such an obvious connection.
I was fortunate enough to go to an early screening of the new movie “The Monkey,” which is based off of a Stephen King short story and is directed by Oz Perkins, who also directed Longlegs.
While Longlegs was pretty divisive with reviewers, I truly think “The Monkey” will transcend that divisiveness… It is so bonkers, ridiculous, and so far-fetched that there is no need for suspension of disbelief. It’s just a ride to be had…
Funny enough, that’s kind of the takeaway from the movie in general. That much like life, The Monkey kills indiscriminately, and the more an outside participant tries to control the outcome, the more the monkey behaves, like a quantum particle— it subverts every expectation of itself until you are finally willing to meet it where it’s at, and just relinquish all control, because life doesn’t work that way and you never know when your cosmic time card is going to be punched.
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