This is a musical whose big number is a dance of abjection between the filmmaker and the viewer.

NEWYORKER: A Psychotronic Childhood

That misery and abjection is what the hunt is all about.

NEWYORKER: Dead Reckoning

Survival is not necessarily a state of abjection or desperation.

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