watching movies by yourself

the drag of being alone


if you watch "alien" and "hedwig and the angry inch" back to back on the same night by yourself, you'll be amazed at their similarities. aside from the obvious nod to the drag queen idiom that both movies make (it's really more of a sub-text in "alien"), the two films also surprisingly share some important themes:

it's hard to know what's inside of another person.

we're frequently compelled to seek out things that used to be a part of us, as disappointing as this can sometimes end up being.

doing what you have to do often means ending up alone.