Tomie and the Violence of Beauty
Beauty becomes an ownership claim. In Junji Ito's Tomie, fascination with an apparently irresistible woman repeatedly becomes murderous resentment when admirers discover that wanting her does not give them control over her. Admiration carries its own threat. The horror lies not simply in her appearance, but in the entitlement that makes attraction and destruction expressions of the same demand.Pos...More
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