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I’m trying to find movies in which the protagonist attends one or more support groups. The support group element must play a prominent role in the film, and the reason the protagonist attends should be central to the plot.

I have two examples:

• Renfield — Renfield attends a support group to seek help dealing with his abusive, co-dependent relationship with Dracula. This ultimately helps push him toward directly confronting Dracula.
• Fight Club — The Narrator attends support groups, though not for their intended purpose. Doing so allows him to sleep, but this coping mechanism is disrupted by Marla’s presence. Although the support groups mostly appear in the first act, they play a pivotal role in setting the narrative in motion.

EDIT: I prefer to keep clear of in-patient, facility based group therapy and stick with open support groups—even if court required as in Anger Management.

Apparently even people who are not not murder suspects aren't supposed to "leave town." It was an honest mistake.

They stopped short of harassment this time. I got this idea to meet them at the door and pretend I was streaming live and made a big show of it. I’m glad they didn’t call my buff because all I had was the regular camera app open.

Maybe I need to start a bunch of fake accounts and leave them in a channel on DC. I can vibe code a bot to make them say shit when I enter the chat and start streaming. Just in case the cops catch a glimpse of my screen.

That's probably that kind of attention to detail that put them onto me in the first place. I mean, I didn’t even know the people who died. Tenuous connections to the victims but enough to raise an eyebrow for some desperate piggies with the mayor of Louisville—and the very real possibility of governors from 8 states and a truck load of feds soon to follow—breathing down their necks.

At this point you might be thinking to yourself—I know I would and I’m not any brighter than the next redditor—“Self, he said he his connection to the victims was “tenuous.” This seems to be linked to cases across a number of states. How many is he linked to?

Therein lies the rub. It’s all of them.

Also, the connection might be a little more concrete than I let on. My number was found in the address book of each of the victims.

Luckily, that’s what the attorney I got a free consultation with called “circumstantial evidence.”

Sadly though, I can’t exactly exonerate myself from a studio apartment in Louisville, KY when 19 of the 22 victims are from out of state.

That was the whole reason for my little jaunt to Georgia. Was it a lot farther than Ohio or Indiana? Sure. But it's also the state where the first body was found. And the body also happens to have been found in the sticks. And the crime scene is also known publicly. My chances of getting access to a two-year old crime scene that's not even a crime scene anymore were a lot better than anywhere this guy touched down in his six month spree through the South and South adjacent.

The cops are going to have a real conniption when I go to Florida.

So, why am I posting any of this? It doesn’t really paint me in the best light. I guess I’m hoping there are enough people here that take an interest, even if it’s morbid, even if they don’t really believe what I’m writing. And maybe they look at something and see something I don’t.

We’ve crowd sourced our health care, why not a legal defense?

So, this is my formal introduction. Welcome to the case amateur sloths sleuths and curiosity seekers. Come one, come all. I hope you’ll stick with me to the end, or an end, bitter, better, or butter.

IiK (Innocent in Kentucky)

EDIT: I know I didn’t post anything from Georgia but I drove all night to get home then had to deal with two police detectives. It’s now past 7 am in the morning and all I want to do is sleep. And it’s Mother’s Day weekend on top of that. I wonder what my mom thinks of all this, like honestly.

Do you evaluate films against a universal ideal of "perfect cinema,” against an ideal of sub-genre, or something else entirely?

Should a war film and a period drama be judged by the same standards of cinematography, sound, and structure, or does each genre create its own standard?

For me, the ideal shifts from sub-genre to sub-genre—and is different for niches among them—and is largely based on the best example I can imagine of the genre.

I don't necessarily do it consciously, but on reflection there's always some ideal form present.

For example, Come and See is my ideal war film. It's shockingly brutal depiction of the horror of war, narratively epic, experiential, and undeniably anti-war.

I saw someone on Letterboxd had done this and it kind of blew my mind. I'm looking for this type of thing:

• Have you watched An American Werewolf in London IN London?
• Have younwatched A Texas Chainsaw Massacre in rural Texas?
• Have you watched Escape from New York while leaving NYC?

I can't really think of any more at the moment.

Any more you can think of, even if you haven't accomplished them would be fun as well.

Oh, bucket list: Watch the Thing on Antarctica!

Are there any found footage movies about killer toys in the vein of Puppetmasters, Dolls, and Demonic Toys? And can somebody hurry up and make a lot more.

EDIT: Well I know what I'm going to be doing with my iphone and a bunch of dollar store rejects for the next 3-6 months...