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Whereas "Obsessed" dropped a chandelier on Ali Larter in Beyoncé's tasteful Los Angeles mansion, here, the "psycho chick" trope is peeled back a layer.
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There are plenty of good guys in the world and there are plenty of asshole bros, probably in a similar proportion that there are phenomenal females to psycho chicks.
That, at any rate, seems to be what movies like "Hanna," "Sucker Punch," "Super," "Let Me In," "Kick-Ass" and those flicks with that inked Swedish psycho-chick seem to be saying.
I was translating my personality into language he might understand — he who used "psycho-chick" as a stand-in for "noncompliant female" and he whose idea of helpful counsel was "You're too smart for your own good," "my own good" presumably being some semivegetative state of acceptance which precluded uncomfortable discussions about our relationship.
While the NYC skyline layered on the Statue of Liberty is intuitive, the old lady-knife-shower GIF tells the story of Hitchcock's Psycho and the chick with an egg skirt makes an ancient question contemporary: which came first?
In a montage of wedding-dress fittings, she honors "new friends like Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera and Christian Lacroix, Lanvin and Dior," and so on; what I object to is not the name-dropping — think of it as a chick response to "American Psycho" — but the montage itself, which is shot in lazy veils of schmaltz.
"Bang, bang, bang, chick, chick, chick.
PSYCHO TOO, by Will Self.
"Psycho," directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Chick food.
Chick Rudy.
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