Edward Appleby
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Something that I think is underappreciated, or at least inarticulated, is the presence of paranoia as a central feel and tone in art. Personally, I love it, when done correctly. Does anyone else share this enthusiasm? What are your favorite films/albums/paintings/books/whatever that build on a sense of paranoia?
Deus Ex would have to be near the top of my list.
She Wants Revenge and Bauhaus make wonderfully paranoid music.
The Thing (1982) is constructed around a pervasive, suspicious dread.
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is rather prototypical of this aesthetic (which seems to be an exclusively 20th-and-later century phenomenon.)
Deus Ex would have to be near the top of my list.
She Wants Revenge and Bauhaus make wonderfully paranoid music.
The Thing (1982) is constructed around a pervasive, suspicious dread.
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is rather prototypical of this aesthetic (which seems to be an exclusively 20th-and-later century phenomenon.)