{"id":6157,"date":"2020-03-01T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:23:10","slug":"the-invisible-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-invisible-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Moss has a villain problem in The Invisible Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a movie named after the antagonist, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man<\/em> has a villain problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, Cecelia (Elisabeth Moss) asks an interesting question: her husband is famous and wealthy, and can have anyone — so why her? In one question, she essentially admits her longstanding insecurity at having a handsome rich man choose her for marriage, and also gets at the more pressing anxiety: why continue to fixate on her after the end of everything? Why go to such extreme lengths to torture and entrap her? Why not just let her go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movie’s answer seems to simply be: because he’s crazy. He’s not exactly like the Joker in The Dark Knight<\/a><\/em>, who wants to watch the world burn just for the sake of it, but more like the loony villain in Skyfall<\/em> whose absurdly complex revenge scheme isn’t because he’s diabolically clever but because he’s just plain nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a free thesis idea for film theory students: compare\/contrast movies about men who may or may not be going insane (Shutter Island<\/em>, Shock Corridor<\/em>, Jacob’s Ladder<\/em>), vs. those about women (Repulsion<\/em>, Unsane<\/em>, Horse Girl<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forget about the advanced optics in the invisibility suit – the real money must be in that amazing floorboard-creaking-prevention tech, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a movie named after the antagonist, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has a villain problem. At one point, Cecelia (Elisabeth Moss) asks an interesting question: her husband is famous and wealthy, and can have anyone — so why her? In one question, she essentially admits her longstanding insecurity at having a handsome rich man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[1926,2039,90,2038,44],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-stars","category-movies","tag-1926","tag-elisabeth-moss","tag-horror","tag-leigh-whannell","tag-thriller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/invisible-man-hand.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1Bj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8080,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/alfred-hitchcocks-psycho-still-slaps-60-years-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":6157,"position":0},"title":"Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho still slaps, 60 years later","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"November 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Alfred Hitchcock's always-relevant 1960 thriller Psycho still has the power to shock, amuse, and provoke.","rel":"","context":"In "4 Stars"","block_context":{"text":"4 Stars","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/ratings\/4-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Janet Leigh in Psycho","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/psycho-leigh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/psycho-leigh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/psycho-leigh.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/psycho-leigh.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/psycho-leigh.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1721,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/happy-go-lucky\/","url_meta":{"origin":6157,"position":1},"title":"Sally Hawkins Finds a New Opportunity in Every Setback in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"April 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a creature rarely encountered in movies and even less often in real life: someone genuinely happy. 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