Whew.
How are you taking care of your hearts today, CoSo?
@MLClark: My usual way, i.e., doggos, gatos, horror movies, reading, and the box fan is on.
Heck yes. Horror movie season is such a quaint way of controlling the terrors of the real world, no? 👌
@MLClark: Horror movies in general, all year. For me they're not therapeutic, just interesting, though sometimes irksome for very deeply geek reasons.
The world doesn't hold much terror for me, really. Seen too much of it, the world. I stopped trying to control or feeling as if I should control things I cannot control long ago.
That's good.
I find horror movies fascinating, because each region's flicks unwittingly show the *actual* limits of a culture's fears. Sometimes it's through tacit coding of who on screen is allowed to be brutalized or killed; other times, through the family value lessons underpinning the story. I also love the films with atheists, because they're almost always *very* good at responding to new evidence.
For me, they're great storytelling lessons - cozy viewing to that end!