Karen hood ron survival jesse3/12/2024 Movies such as Memento, Fight Club and Donnie Darko both appeal to our problem-solving tendencies and outmaneuver them. The best movies in the genre are often recognised for the mind-bending power of their plots, and if we watch movies partly to escape-to distract ourselves from the dreary, unstimulating reality of our day-to-day lives-then there are few more captivating routes out. Yet attempts to suppress them can turn them into agents of harm." However, there may be more innocent reasons behind the enduring popularity of psychological thrillers. As Paul Roberts wrote in a 1995 edition of Psychology Today on "Forbidden Thinking"-"We all have dark impulses. Psychological thrillers allow us to explore the more sinister sides of our imagination, and even let us live as our darker selves-vicariously, momentarily and without suffering any of the consequences. Some believe that this is precisely the point. ![]() And yet, as with horror movies, we are drawn to them, again and again-despite our better selves. ![]() They give us unsettling narratives, crazed characters and malign motives. Our thirst for psychological thrillers seems to be insatiable.
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