What is less predictable is the consequence for Natraja, the American in the grip of an obsession who casts away her identity like the Hindus around her wash away their sins.
I have talked to other writers of equal obsession who are totally immersed in formulaic genre and have made a spectacular living out of the practice.
But it seems that boomer's built-in bunk detectors have grown defective or obsolete over fifty years and were, sadly, no match for the razzle-dazzle of Donald Trump--himself a boomer with a lifelong TV obsession who appeared to "tell it like it is," a trait, as Time noted fifty years ago, highly admired by boomers.
"And the worst part is… she's a lesbian!" said Elenora, my obsession, who has devil eyes and a tiny waist and is a natural D cup and is a kept woman who wears Forever 21 jeans and carries the most gorgeous red Chanel quilted bag you've ever seen and Instagrams the trips her sugar daddy pays for her to take to Milan.
So the story of "Side Effects" is a good one, and it fits in with Soderbergh's demonstrated range of cinematic obsessions, but who cares?
Next to her dignity, her quiet sense of duty and care (the word most often used of her playing was "noble"), the conquering artistic triumphs and crowd-drawing celebrity that Clara's father or indeed Liszt, desired, showed only as competitions, masculine obsessions of who's strongest, who's biggest, who wins.
This lends itself nicely to competitive obsessions over who has more Facebook fans, whose blog gets the greatest number of hits, whose video goes the most viral, and who has the largest number of Twitter followers.
Guide In rap circles, there's an obsession with who is the "GOAT" – the Greatest Of All Time.
Our political and media culture reflects and drives an obsession with who is going to win, rather than who should win.
