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PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

You think that I am not a hunter like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous. You can’t see that I’m killing you. And it won’t either.

ppl always bring up tender is the flesh when talking abt fucked up cannibalism books but quite frankly! I think much of the themes and ending could’ve been developed more like the whole throwaway line abt the virus that caused animals to be toxic to humans being faked by the world powers like WHY and HOW would that happen? and the ending of jasmine was too abrupt bc that poor girl was literally getting raped by her captor for eventually his own child when there was very little build-up for that reveal. but the whole thing of humans cannibalizing human meat falling under capitalist exploitation was very apt and disgusting.

Actually i find the reception of the book far more interesting than the book itself, it feels almost like an immersive continuation. How much lack of self awareness in these lines. Literally a parallel to the way the main character reacts to the scene as well. Seeing humans die in agony, hunted for sport, skinned alive, etc, is fine, 200 pages of that is easy to go through, but the mentions of cruelty against dogs is the deal breaker? Im not saying it's wrong to feel disgust or anything, im just saying the self fulfilling prophecy and irony writes itself.

Caesar Flickerman: Now, you were the victor of the 10th hunger games ladies and gentlemen! Tell us, Lucy Grey, how different were those games compared to now?

Lucy Grey at 80 something years old, zero fucks left to give and knowing that she was going to die within a minute of the quarter quell: well Caesar, I must say that being hosted in an apartment building instead of being put in a rat infested zoo cage with the 23 other tributes and given no food or water until the games started is definitely a big step up.