Everytime I see David Thewlis I think of his best performance as the crazed prophet-like sexual deviant in Naked.
couldn't agree more! absolutely epic unforgettable part! and i think his villain in season three is also one of his top performances..
almost even represents the same existential inner dialog in different clothing and circumstances..
And I believe you should pet your cat!
Or else...
mate! the threat is real!! lol x
in Neil Gaimans sandman vol 3 there's a chapter named "A Dream Of A Thousand Cats", i just found a summary-
A long time ago, a Siamese cat met a Tom-cat, who became her lover. Eventually, she gave birth to several kittens. Her human owners were not pleased, and the male owner put the kittens in a bag bound to a rock and threw them off a bridge into a river. Traumatized by the callous murder of her kittens, the Siamese becomes disillusioned in human beings and ultimately rejects the life of a pampered pet. Her cause is strengthened when she has a dream that she has entered a boneyard in the Dreaming. In the dream, a raven with no skin on its head informs her where she can find out exactly why the humans killed her offspring: a cave inhabited by the Dream Lord. At the entrance to the cave that the raven told her off, many fearsome animals tell her to leave. She responds by saying that she will only state her business to Dream. Inside, she finds Dream in the form of a cat.
Dream presents her with a vision of an alternate reality where cats are huge and humans are merely their playthings, tiny servants which groom their bodies and which the cats can kill at their leisure. A man ruined that world by informing the humans that their dreams will shape the world. Enough humans listened to make the vision a reality. Upon waking, the cat undertakes a spiritual quest for justice. She preaches her vision to motley assortments of house cats around the world, hoping that if she can make enough cats believe in and dream of this reality, the world will change to conform to their dreams.
The cat from the beginning of the story heads home. Her friends were slightly disappointed, though they admitted that what they heard was interesting. The white cat, however, was fully taken by the tale. She returns home and heads to sleep. Over breakfast, her owners remark on what a cute stance she's in: it looks as if she's hunting something, or someone.
i like the idea that reality is shaped in the most literal sense by the dreams, beliefs, and expectations of humans and, in this case, of other animals as well. they theme of change and its relation to an individual's nature. The humans found that they were unhappy with their role and were able to harness the power of Dream to instigate a change of the nature of reality, whereas when cats found themselves in a similar situation their apathetic, independent, and fickle nature kept them from changing.
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