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In reply to the discussion: Why is "Sunset Boulevard" trump's favorite movie? [View all]hatrack
(58,832 posts)1. Because he knows that he's Norma Desmond . . .
Just as every accusation is a confession with these clowns, deep down in what remains of his "self", Shitstain knows that he's a fragment of the past, a has-been, a washed up remnant of whatever he remembers of The World As It Should Have Remained.
Thanatos draws him on - the idea of his own disappearance is incomprehensible, and incomprehensibly fascinating, and he can't look away, all of his sociopathic defense mechanisms notwithstanding.
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It is really pretty good. Fun psychological thriller about a washed up has been actress.
emulatorloo
Jan 2023
#9
FWIW watching Musk implode feels like watching Citizen Kane happen in real life to me
emulatorloo
Jan 2023
#11