269. Obsession: "You. Not me."

I mean, it really did.

I know it came from Universal and Focus Features.

I mean, it was a movie that had no budget under a million dollars, superseded that, and made so much more.

But I think...

And Laura, I feel like we've discussed this also, is it reminded me of the same vein as how Jennifer's body is horror.

And I just thought that there was a conversation there because...

There is an overall conversation about women and bodily autonomy and then the quote unquote nice guy trope that we all have to, you know, work with.

And, you know, there's the one wish willow, which I didn't realize was a trope till you told me, oh, it's this one.

monkey paw trope, monkey paw wish trope, which I wasn't even familiar with.

I mean, I think we all know if you've been following the podcast for a while, or even if you've just jumped around to different episodes, that I am not a horror person.

I don't do the horror genre.

But there are certain, I don't know, media that I've been consuming lately, that it doesn't feel like horror to me, I guess, in the traditional sense.

But in the Like there's a it's not surrealism.

There is a very realistic component to both Jennifer's body and to obsession.

And I feel like there's just other examples in media that I have yet to explain.

I mean, Laura, you even said, you know, in one capacity that alien is very much comes with a feminist lens, which I would have never computed before.

You know, all of this to get her to watch Nosferatu.

We'll get there.

We'll get there.

The monkey paw.

So I know that this movie Obsession, which we are going to talk about, which evokes a lot of feelings, rightly so.

But the monkey paw trope.

Makes me feel a certain way.

And I really don't usually watch monkey paw trope movies because if you know anything about Akafe Podcast, if you know

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