Encore

The audience is consensually prompted to gaze into the small condensed universe of someone experiencing a fascinatingly destructive egomania. Here they recognize behavior once thought to be beyond eccentric yet today somehow normalized - perhaps sprouting from a modern culture of self-centered ideology? We witness in this character the downfall of self-idolatry; the frequent cause and occasional side effect of pathological narcissism; self-hatred. The struggle between loving oneself more than anything while simultaneously desiring perfection threatens to upend the film's eerie dreamworld. However a brief brush with self-awareness only serves to solidify the character's self-obsession. An existential crisis half-realized - drowned in the shallow waters of Narcissus' well.