There’s a woman who eats a lot. Like an obscene amount. But she’s incredibly healthy. Everyone else has extreme anxiety.
“This party is so vicering” (made up word, supposed to feel like a dream) says a friend to her at the party. Her friend is experiencing a spinning feeling and VERY dizzy feeling. Like she’s eating what the main woman’s eating but she’s the one experiencing the side effects.
In other words, she’s (the main woman) engaging in the things of life that gives people anxiety, like bad sleep, bad food, bad relationships etc, but everyone else is experiencing the side effects. She’s perfectly fine. In fact when we’re engaging with these activities, it’s not “bad”, it’s actually really good. Just different. Like only eating carnivore. So there’s tons of food on her plate and you can subtly pick up that she has lots of crab legs and steak on that plate. Everyone else has “normal” cocktails and sandwiches etc. She’ll sleep a full 6-8 hours but it’ll be at a strange time. Like 8-4. Like waking up at 4 seems like you had no sleep, but you actually got great sleep. But everyone else around her acts like they all woke up at 4 and it’s bad. They’re all experiencing the side effects of waking up at 4.
The whole thing is that no one else is taking the Eucharist. We don’t find that out till much later but that’s the spoiler. That we may or may not reveal.
The viewer starts to subtly notice her lifestyle which seems very normal at first, until you really start paying attention (crab legs and steak at a cocktail party, waking up really early etc) and you start thinking “oh, she’s living a ‘bad’ life and everyone else is experiencing the side effects, got it, how interesting”.
But it’s totally not the case. There’s actually nothing wrong with eating a large amount of meat at a cocktail party. There’s nothing wrong with waking up at 4. You may or may not find out that what she is doing is “good” but we subtly show that her secret is just going to daily mass.
So bottom line, we set up a world where everyone’s doing the “right” things and she’s doing the “wrong” things, but you can’t really tell. All you notice is the strange “dream like” state that the viewer of this is in watching it. “Is this real?” “Wait, is this a dream or something?”
Everyone at the cocktail party is drinking the little martini glass stuff with little sandwiches, but they’re all experiencing what one person would feel if they were “off”: dizziness, confusion, isolated, anxious. But they all feel it. We all feel it. The only person that feels normal is the girl. But she’s eating a pile of crab legs.
The viewers start thinking that everyone else is taking drugs or something. Or maybe they’re thinking again that the women’s side effects are affecting everyone but her. But really, the party goers live incredibly “normal” lives that are ACTUALLY very bad for you! Like working 10 hours a day. Or watching tv late at night. Or eating loads of starch. Or going to sleep at 11 and waking up at 7.
You see, you don’t know what’s good or bad. The meta point is that I (Blake) think all of these “normal” things are actually killing us. We show the actual long term effects of these things. It is NOT normal to work 10 hours a day. It is TOTALLY normal to eat a large plate of meat at a party.
You get the viewer thinking about these things. Confusing them. But really what’s actually sustaining this girl is she goes to daily mass.
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