Mesila
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...Don't Fear...
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Post by Mesila on Sept 6, 2007 1:06:12 GMT -5
I realised one of the reasons why the Tall Man's such an interesting and different filmic villain: he's not stupid-evil, like other horrorshow baddies. He's got no dumb Freudian issues to resolve, no abusive childhood to perpetuate...he's so inured to death - as Klyza narrates in this story I'm illustrating "first by preoccupation, then by occupation" that it's not malicious or painful at all to him...he's just very, very driven, has the wisdom of the ages, and power. And knows it enough to have nothing to prove.
I think of him as not identifying himself with evil at all. He doesn't think of killing you as hurting you, or makes light of pain since he knows it ends...he doesn't end life out of hate, but out of a sort of love borne from having knowledge of this whole new reality. Access to the higher level grid of the spatiotemporal continuum(s) is a profound thing, and I say this as someone who's been there, a few times... When one's touched by something that amazing the urge to turn others on, to show them what you have experienced, is overwhelming. I am no stranger to that feeling.
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Post by 4barrelhemi on Sept 6, 2007 1:24:53 GMT -5
Yeah but the Tall Man doesn't want to give anyone the choice to be turned on to that he has just made up his mind he is going to make you that.
I agree though he knows what he is doing and is very driven and isn't out to prove anything at all.
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Mesila
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Post by Mesila on Sept 8, 2007 0:27:22 GMT -5
Yeah but the Tall Man doesn't want to give anyone the choice to be turned on to that he has just made up his mind he is going to make you that. Oh, he's evil all right, precisely because he has deprived his victims of choice to see what he wants to show them - and use them, for what purpose we still really don't know yet (and which I hope to hell P5 will give us a clue about...) What I guess I was trying to say was that he's not driven by malice, or need for retribution, the way most bad guys/villains/antagonists seem to be. Michael said in P1 that the dwarves sent to the xenodimension became his "slaves" but I always wondered how it was he was able to figure that. They just form a procession into the unseen horizon.
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