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This frenzied devotion to freedom in its most perverted form, a kind of Promethean exultation in unbridled will and desire, sits in weird juxtaposition with a cultish, masochistic worship of leader figures.

As someone who has always had a masochistic streak, finding out that these sequences of cars speeding down darkened paths recurred in Lynch’s other works both delighted and horrified me.

The failure of hard work to pay off in America makes our communities wobbly, our faith weak, our lives lonely, our politics toxic and our relationship with work masochistic and unsustainable.

The two men are bonded by their shared addiction and all of the places it has taken them, and Gi-hun cares deeply for Jung-bae because he sees himself in his buddy’s masochistic desperation.

You don’t title a pop song “Sigmund Freud’s Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America” without being at least a little masochistic.