Obscura: Enter the Mad World
“Enter the Mad World” discusses the in-depth world of Obscura and the thematic motifs that are powerfully embedded in the film’s central psychosis. Mad World is the movie’s thesis of how duality can make or break our spirit.
Once the two couples interact within the narrative, they bring forth their roller coaster of baggage with them, creating a pent up sexual tension programmed by the oversexualized ideals of what is sex and how to exploit the compulsive behaviorisms that lead the characters seeking a rush of adrenaline through sex, alcohol, alcohol, and murder.
To understand the characters’ need to deconstruct their programming and personalities, one must understand their compulsiveness and liken it to that of an addict. With the heightened hypersexuality, drug and alcohol addiction affects their social and sexual inhibitions, altering how the brain looks and functions.
Alongside the recreational usage of powerful drugs, increased sexual desires releases a surge of dopamine in the brain, which trigger the cravings for pleasure. Your brain stores these feelings and when the neurons hit the nerve spots in the brain that ignite the feelings necessity, it is when cravings are set in. In the case of the movie, the sex becomes a powerful drug that fulfills a valuable need, forging relationships altogether. By using sex as a love drug, Each character uses his addiction to sex as a way to disassociate from reality, running away from their actual problems which leads to Easton’s commencement of social experiment.
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