I guess you could call it that…?

¡Kenan!

¡Kenan!

Elmo one suave fuck.

Elmo one suave fuck.

At least six Brian De Palma movies.

At least six Brian De Palma movies.

I completely agree with @avclub-d3d9446802a44259755d38e6d163e820:disqus  on this.  I love North by Northwest, but that isn't what this is— it's realistic and powerful.  I think the look of fear on Henry Fonda's face as he's being led back to the cells for the first time is one of the most harrowing shots in Hitchcock.

I completely agree with @avclub-d3d9446802a44259755d38e6d163e820:disqus  on this.  I love North by Northwest, but that isn't what this is— it's realistic and powerful.  I think the look of fear on Henry Fonda's face as he's being led back to the cells for the first time is one of the most harrowing shots in Hitchcock.

@avclub-87caf7c42aedbada42572e2374eed08d:disqus Exactly.

@avclub-87caf7c42aedbada42572e2374eed08d:disqus Exactly.

Ah, but they're British aren't they?  So they're Angloroids.

Ah, but they're British aren't they?  So they're Angloroids.

Yet hauntingly beautiful.

Yet hauntingly beautiful.

Whoa… what are the odds?

Whoa… what are the odds?

(Curtain.  Eddie sits reading the paper at the kitchen table.  Mavis is at the sink, looking out of a window.  Silence.  Eddie flips a page.)

(Curtain.  Eddie sits reading the paper at the kitchen table.  Mavis is at the sink, looking out of a window.  Silence.  Eddie flips a page.)

I think it's important to remember that all religions begin in a state of extremism— they wouldn't catch on otherwise.  Scientology's currently in its "cult" phase: thought control, disconnection, paranoia.  At a certain point either the cult fractures and softens into a religion, or burns out entirely like a failed…