I mean, they fixated on it as the most public and fundamental rejection of their own "I'm a special snowflake and all of you are sinful and worthless" narrative of self. Ultimately it's that narrative, though, that guides their behavior.

Here's an example, surrounding the murder of the reporters on television in Roanoke. http://www.thedailybeast.co…

I'm not sure what 'failed transsexual' means. The whole thing with Jame Gumb is that he's not transsexual at all, and the book makes that very clear: he "believes" that he is transsexual because that is the way that he makes sense of his experience, but in reality he has a whole constellation of pathologies including…

There's plenty of psychological tension to be mounted from the incomprehensible. See: Stanislaw Lem's 'Solaris.' It is truly disconcerting to contemplate that if we ever were to find truly alien life, that communication and any sort of meaningful interaction would most likely be impossible. It would simply be…

That's actually a point that Cormac McCarthy makes in "The Crossing." That while good people are often pitifully transparent in the eyes of the evil, the evil are almost completely opaque to the good.

At least in the book, Silence of the Lambs addressed that directly. The character Alan Bloom largely refuses to cooperate with the FBI's investigation specifically because he believes the media and public incapable of making the distinction that Jame Gumb is not trans, and that trans people are by and large the…

There are two ghosts in the film (If I remember correctly), but neither floats, ha ha. Despite the terrible things happening in the film, the ghosts themselves aren't malicious in any traditional sense.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Kairo' (Pulse, though not to be confused with the god-awful American remake) is a great example of supernatural horror that is harrowing not because of the ghosts in it, but because the ghost story is a powerful metaphor for crippling depression, and the idea of feeling driven to commit suicide…

The thing you're leaving out is that in TWD, anyone who dies from any circumstance that doesn't involve destruction of the brain becomes a zombie, not just people who get bitten. Almost every unbitten human who has died of a disease, heart condition, starvation, fatal fall, drowning, natural disaster (and on and on)…

Pretty sure they do. Otherwise it's trying to fool a bear by covering yourself in peanut butter.

Yeah, I've always gotten the feeling that no one working on the show has any idea what a human body is made of, or how hard you have to work to, say, chop through a skull. My 6'4" 260lb best friend fell 30 feet off a mountainside, striking the rock headfirst (and head-downwards), and fractured his skull—in a small V…

You're drawing an absolutely ridiculous conclusion here (that a willingness to admit that war crimes of any sort occurred with Union soldiers as perpetrators is equivalent to apologetics for slavery). The point is that saying that something has been used as a pernicious trope for malicious or self-serving ends by a…

I just don't buy this notion that it is an all-or-nothing proposition. It's not like a film centered on a Croatian war crime could be said to—by its choice of subject and setting alone—inherently legitimize or downplay Serbian atrocities.

Deadwood and Justified are strong contenders as well.

It's certainly been used in self-serving Southern Resistance narratives, but it's not like it didn't happen. According to the Atlantic, in an interview with an author researching the subject, there were at least 450 cases on record of Union soldiers charged with rape, and there's plenty of reason to believe that the…

I have been part of the beta for this for months, and it's a mixed bag. Its initial purpose seemed to have nothing to do with original programming at all, and everything to do with trying to make Youtube into a more viable option for music playing and a competitor for Spotify—hence the ability to play in background…

I may well be misremembering, but I didn't think anyone said they actually witnessed the murder, just Daniel sitting with the body and putting flowers on it. That's part of where the awful ambiguity comes in. I don't think even Amantha would have kept up the fight as long as she did if there was an eyewitness to the…

Hmmm. What about Mark Ruffalo?

John Hawkes, Gary Oldman, William H Macy, Josh Brolin…

If you want to read how this operates on the global scale, read "Inside the Jihad," by Omar Nasiri. It's by a Moroccan hustler and low-level arms dealer whose brother was a member of Al Qaeda (before it was known as that), and who subsequently ratted his brother and his friend out to the French intelligence services.