Encore (2018)

The audience is consensually prompted to gaze into the small condensed universe of someone experiencing a fascinatingly destructive egomania Here they recognize behavior once thought to be beyond eccentric yet today somehow normalized perhaps sprouting from a modern culture of selfcentered ideology We witness in this character the downfall of selfidolatry the frequent cause and occasional side effect of pathological narcissism selfhatred The struggle between loving oneself more than anything while simultaneously desiring perfection threatens to upend the films eerie dreamworld However a brief brush with selfawareness only serves to solidify the characters selfobsession An existential crisis halfrealized drowned in the shallow waters of Narcissus well