Enneagram Film Snippets ✂️ 🎞️ 👹 Charlize Theron as a miserable SX/SO 3w4 🥀 🧯 🔥 (Young Adult 2011)
Young Adult (2011) written by Diablo Cody (probably a 6w7 94) is one of my favourite films and this is one of my favourite scenes. Charlize Theron plays Mavis, a miserable SX/SO 3w4 whose spark is dying. 🥀 🧯 🔥
She’s procrastinating writing the final book in a teen romance series when she gets invited by her first love 🫀 to his baby shower. A distraction from the crumbling prison of pointless sex, monotony and ghostwritten oblivion she inhabits.🏚️🥱 Her bland ex Buddy becomes her escape hatch, the*missing piece.* 🥀 The thing that will fix it, complete her. 🥵🤡🫠 The wife and babies are irrelevant to her fated romance.🦵👶🏻 🕳️ 👋
After hitting the slimy bottom of the wet bar floor, getting covered in 🍷 during a breathtaking piece of emotional performance art, sleeping with a shriveled flesh egg creature, the realization hits. 🌪️ ☕️ ✨
The common denominator isn’t that she’s the one who’s toxic (altho this is also true ☢️) it’s that she’s the one with all the heat. She was looking outside for something that could never match the level of unspeakable delusion inside - she had just forgotten this fact. 🔥 She had been playing Barbies with unworthy stick figures, not fit to pass a tedious Sunday. Smug nothings zombie-walking thru projections of her inner world, that cease to exist once her eyes turn away. 👀 🥱 Her 35mm fantasies were the most interesting thing about them.🪞😍
It was never about some chuddy Buddy or getting back some unlived life she would’ve been repulsed by had she got it - it was about reigniting her own spark. 🧨 To me, this relates to the sexual instinct + the heart center, because it’s where lore is forged, ruined, destroyed, rebirthed anew, restyled over and over. 🐍 🔪 What to do with such energy? ⚡️Mavis’ new story is still unwritten but she seems to have figured it out.
The disillusioned narcissist to empowered narcissist arc is 👌😘. Sometimes you need to wallow in your own mess for a while in order to see the more grandiose possibilities. ✨
🎥 You can watch my longer videos on Nightcrawler (about an sp/so 3w4 51) and Get Out (about a 963 “Passenger”) on YouTube if this type of material interests. In both, I talk about the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ of Enneagram types, which is something that I noticed a couple of years ago applying my knowledge of storytelling to the Enneagram. Expect more film snippets and longer episodes in the coming months. ✂️ 💐 👹
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