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“The Bride” is Possession

by on March 15, 2026

The Bride reads Frankenstein as dispossession. The creature is dis possessed by Victor. Victor seeks to make that permanent. Victor’s story as a haunting and hunting. The creature seeks communion as possessed by a community. The creatures seeks possession of a companion to possess and be possessed. The creature haunts and is haunted (nee hunting for both).

Ida is possessed. Mary Shelley possesses to the brink of emptiness. Not the The Bride of anything. Not objec petit a. Not objec A. Self possessed.

The creature finds an initial path through a woman (the doctor, Penelope – ever raveling and unraveling the loom). The doctor speaks in anachronism. Time changes, can change. Or the time field collapses. Penelope Cruz resolves one plot line on the nose. The revolution of brain attack plot and also sub-plot, also subterfuge. Many scenes of Weimar club explosiveness. And dreams of what the Movies tell us: Revolting | Illusion.

Dada in its telling.
Perhaps, Dada in its message.


REFERENTS
Joker, Joker: Folie a Deux
Hildur Guðnadóttir

Mel Brooks
Young Frankenstein

Babylon Berlin

Dada Manifestos

The Hundred Headless Woman by Max Ernst?

Doom Patrol doing Dada
Gerard Way

Eraserhead | David Lynch


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