normally we are posting "the writer's barely-disgused fetish" but I think this should be labeled "the writer's barely-disguised mid-life crisis"

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Anne's taking the news of her husband's psychotic break reasonably well. But again has no defense skills, treats it as a joke.

They rode the elevator down, got out, got back in, came back up.

#monsterdon #communion

Pacing, people, pacing!

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She's definitely gas-lighting him, right?
She saw him get abducted, they left her in bed.

She's like "hah, I bet I can get him to Kurt Cobain, and live off the insurance. He's all dried up as a writer anyway."

#Monsterdon #Communion #Communion1989

SHE IS NOT HELPING #Communion #Monsterdon

I can tell she is very disappointed in him for having these hallucinations. He should have grander psychoses! #Monsterdon

"It's magazine writing"

Yes this script is pretty much that.

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His wife has trust issues for some reason. #Monsterdon

It's the 1980's so cocaine could explain much of this.

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"It's magazine writing." Anne's going for the throat!

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

"that's magazine writing" is the cruelest insult to a writer.

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I wonder what the drugs are up to right about now

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

"This is such bad material" that she's sure he's not making stuff up at the expected level. #Monsterdon

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⁉️ TRIVIA ENCOUNTER 👽

Cool Prop

👀 In the scene with the meeting between Whitley and Anne Streiber with Janet Duffy in her office. There is a yellow-covered book over Duffy's table. It is named "First Contact".

It's about the discovery in 1930 of a flourishing native population inside of New Guinea's highlands, thought to be uninhabited area. The natives had no previous contact with the outside world.

#Monsterdon #Communion1989 #Communion

TAKEN by Thicc Blue Kids #Monsterdon

This is the part - when you speak it out, with real words, no euphemisms, in details, the entire experience - and that you realize how absurd the entire thing is and that you need to seek medical attention. Yet this guy wrote a movie about his real experience #monsterdon #communion1989

OH GOD MAGAZINE WRITING

how disgraceful

_Straight_ through the heart

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Why does she keep thinking he’s doing a bit?

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"This is such bad material" Yes. Yes we know. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

The most embarrassing part of his xp was that they weren't human perverts? #Monsterdon

Barbie Dream Kitchen #monsterdon

Okay, Streiber's having a crisis of masculinity, blames aliens, and nearly shoots his wife.

Do we need Firestone or Butler for this one?

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I mean, at least he admits he has problems?

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"Shrinker" because it used to be a joke to refer to psychiatrists as "head shrinkers," as in "witch doctor" racist tropes about how it was all bullshit because psychological disorders weren't allowed to be seen as real.

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

"Oh... The ALIENS...
Yeah, I totally saw them all grab you while I was in bed.
I thought you organised it, you know, as a kink?"

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“This is the tough part” #Monsterdon

"I'm sorry what" is what we've ALL been saying. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

@srol wait what are you serious #monsterdon

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Look, I wouldn't tell her either

Most guys in Whitley Streibers position would just develop a drinking problem and buy a sports car, he went the Alien Abduction Fantasy route #Monsterdon

@moira Not your standard issue kidx. #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

I don't even know what to say at this point. He just shotgunned the ceiling. #monsterdon

"wait, what did you say?" -monsterdon, trying to listen to this movie.

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#monsterdon a mirror over the sink in the pink tiled kitchen? Is this a bathroom they hastily set-dressed

That actress did a great impression of someone trying to acclimate to nonsense. #Monsterdon

i think he problem is that their kitchen is the most hideous room i have ever seen. no one should have to stay sane in a pink kitchen.

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I dig the construction paper reindeer. Their kid definitely got an A in scissors. #Monsterdon

Look at the at pink tile in the kitchen!

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Doctor Friedman sends his love

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A shrink! Finally 45 minutes in a depressed New Yorker goes for some sane help.
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@jivens 😆#Monsterdon

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a 'shrinker'???

They TERK mah JEORB. Or no. They just took my ability to *DO* my job. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

honestly it's a little alarming they let Walken...walk out after that

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@jadebees Exactly. I mean, it still could be that.

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Dude, you've been losing your marbles for a lot longer.

Let's face it. The bag is empty.

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

they should have called this movie The Rectal Thing (1989)

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wait they're still living together??

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“Big, thick kids” was a line I never thought I’d ever hear.

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So, if he could smell things he definitely didn't dream it. #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

"Needle? Oh, I see what this is about.
I'm gonna refer you to Michael Jackson's doctor. He can sort you out."

#Monsterdon #Communion #Communion1989

THICK KIDS

shit where's Jarvis Cocker

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@amyfou They're so cute! #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

"There's a lot of it about this time of year" #Monsterdon #Communion1989

Friedman is neither a shrink nor a divorce lawyer.

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@klu9 I WAS WONDERING. 😑
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“The rectal thing” ah yes right #monsterdon #communion1989

"The rectal thing, right."

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Well it’s not the worst alien probe injury i’ve seen, but call me if it gets worse #Monsterdon

Sam Friedman back of ear-ocologist

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@heathen_cat oh is that what's supposed to be happening

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

I do suppose shooting at shit randomly is a very American solution.

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"Sam Freeman" better be your divorce lawyer

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Wonderfully acted very intense scene! #Monsterdon

Yes, give her the gun. Please. I don't care if you saw Yoda with the potted plant.

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Anne has really poor survival instincts. She has no fear, no desire to check the cabin, no curiousity about the dreams. Just completely oblivious & mocking.

New Yorkers with guns are weird. It just doesn't make sense if they're not gangsters. This is just my own bias against disarmed populations, tho.

& we see he has very poor fire control skills.

#monsterdon #communion

JACK ASS!! Damn near kilt your wife!

You can kiss your marriage goodbye.

#Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

Okay, that was terrifying, and I'm not trying to blame the victim here, but…

As a rule, don't walk into a room right after you hear a gun go off.

Just a safety tip.

#Monsterdon #Communion1998

Now save us, and finish him!

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

Nothing more scariest then a crazy American father with a shotgun
#Monsterdon #communion1989

Turns out you can't solve everything with a gun! #Monsterdon #Communion1989

Yes. You should probably take the gun at this point. That seems prudent. #Monsterdon

“I simply solved the problem. We needed a coffiin…er, a tree. There are no lots open on Christmas Eve. An alien was in my house…”

#Monsterdon

So the established pattern is
Conscious world: Improvisation that doesn’t work and is weirdly boring
Unconscious world: Completely off the chain contextless bonkerdom
And barely the twain shall meet
#Monsterdon

OK, let's face it. This movie is completely lacking in tension or likeable characters.

What it does have is some cool camera angles and closeup wideangle shots.

It does not save it.

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

tbf i too would be pissed off if bright lights kept turning on in the middle of the night when i was trying to sleep

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#Monsterdon Imagine owning a house this big and it's just your holiday cabin.

You know what this movie needs? Predators #Monsterdon

Were writers regularly wearing guy-liner in the late 80s??? #Monsterdon

Chekov’s plushie

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do the aliens only show up once per holiday? is that how it works?

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Googly eyes are supposed to make it LESS scary #Monsterdon

@catzilla they also get as big as Volkswagens

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

@diazona @srol oh, snap

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@RobynGoodfellow WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CABIN STAYS IN THE CABIN!

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like he moves within five feet of that gun, I've got the kid and the car keys I'm out the door.

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i'm pretty sure no one dies from the gun because i think this was always a separate topic from true crime on the podcasts

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That teddy has, um, eyes for sure
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That bear was not a Volkswagen #monsterdon #communion1989

in his defense, that is a creepy looking teddy bear. wth is up with those eyes.

#monsterdon #Communion1989

Menacing google eyes #Monsterdon

Okay. What did the bear do? #Monsterdon #Communion

@Taweret I feel like I would have noticed the shut gun during a fight when I was saying he needs to man up, but maybe that's just me
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the antagonist in this movie is a man not being able to communicate his feelings of depression and failure and potentially being abducted and implanted by aliens to his wife who expects him to be the masculine ideal of steadfast and not full of alien implants #monsterdon

walken gonna go hunt him a bigfoot
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LOL!! Did she jus tell him to shoot himself? Where's my CC? #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

This is surely the most healthy relationship dynamic I could expect from 1980s film.

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

The cloud from Nope. The one that doesn't move. Duh. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

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this does not seem to be an emotionally healthy relationship, aliens or no aliens tbh