Encore Soap2Day
The audience is invited to delve into the compact world of an individual grappling with a captivatingly destructive egomania. They observe behaviors that were once deemed excessively eccentric but have now somehow become normalized, possibly stemming from a contemporary culture steeped in self-centered ideology. In this character, we see the collapse of self-worship, a frequent cause and occasional consequence of pathological narcissism, leading to self-loathing. The tension between an overwhelming self-love and an insatiable quest for perfection threatens to unravel the film’s unsettling dreamscape. Yet, a fleeting moment of self-awareness only reinforces the character’s self-obsession. An existential crisis is half-realized, ultimately submerged in the shallow depths of Narcissus’ reflection.