Fictional Influence

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It's What's Inside: The Rage of Cowards
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It's What's Inside: The Rage of Cowards

You don't need a new body. You can just leave.

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“If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe you should water your own lawn.” - Ghandi, probably

There are few things in life as repulsive as self-pity, a person crying about their circumstances while doing nothing to change them.

For some people, the self-pity has moved beyond their circumstances and has encompassed their whole being: they no longer hate their life; they hate themselves.

And the strange part about it is that many of these people are just out living their lives. Far from being curled in a ball of cookie-dough-eating depression, they’re seeing movies, chatting with friends, and going to work.

But make no mistake, they hate themselves. And they’d do anything to be someone else.

It’s cool to dump on the state of modern movie making, but I’m happy to say there are some bangers out there, and last year’s It’s What’s Inside is one of them.

The movie asked us to consider, “What if you didn’t have to be yourself? What if you could be someone else?”

The premise of the movie is …

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