sad & alone

the irony of movies/tv/books in which the character deals with an existential crisis is that they are completely undermined by an audience they know nothing about. they are not alone, isolated, mortal, purposeless, meaningless, or free as a result of omniscient spectators.

and yet because those of us existing in this reality have no god, the ultimate omniscient spectator, we are left to overcome these real crises and look to characters for guidance who have endured only an artificial circumstance.