"Review," Comedy Central: In 2013, we said goodbye to a man whose delusional obsessions destroyed his family and everything else he touched.
A crazed killer is terrorising the Isle of Man and has a delusional fan-obsession with Mindhorn from old videocassette copies; he thinks Mindhorn is real and is prepared to negotiate with Mindhorn and only Mindhorn.
Some people might qualify a statement like this as a sign of gratuitous and perhaps delusional self-obsession.
Moreover, here was another work about a man's love for a woman, though in this case obsession and delusional love.
A great Hoffmann must have an understanding of French style and the vocal elegance of a lyric tenor, but enough charisma and fervor to convey Hoffmann's alcohol-induced torment, delusional fits and romantic obsessions as he relates the tales of three thwarted romances to his eerily fascinated companions at the tavern near the opera house in Nuremberg where he hangs out.
Think about a big white whale like a Migaloo or an albino sperm whale that has become the unhealthy obsession of a delusional sea captain.
As Ford, whose delusional jealousy borders on Othello-like obsession, the excellent Mr. Havill is exactly as serious as he needs to be, reminding us that one of comedy's main functions is to defuse bombs that in real life often explode and destroy.
It frames the examination initially in terms of the US social mores that substantially influence behavior and attitudes from a defining individualism to legal mandates for accessibility to the nation's ingrained obsession with youth and delusional attitudes about aging.
"Silicon Valley's obsession with meritocracy is delusional and aspirational and not a statement of how it really operates," she said.
As the monstrous, tragic, annoying, delusional Rupert Pupkin, he is utterly transfixing, and his unhinged obsession with the cult of celebrity made the film hugely prescient.
