I find myself disarmed and slightly enthralled by the way she speaks. I feel like I'd trust her with my bank details and not even blame her if some money went missing - it couldn't possibly be her, listen to her innocent voice!

She'd make an amazing criminal à la Primal Fear.

Here's a list of the movies for those who don't want to watch the entire 9 minutes:

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10. identity
9. one flew over the cuckoo's nest
8. no country for old men
7. saw
6. rosemary's baby
5. the silence of the lambs
4. primal fear
3. the empire strikes back
2. se7en
1. the usual suspects
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That evoked some nice primal fear from my lizard brain.

Actually, DFT, if you allow me a tangent. I don't deny our communal urges at all. I understand that's a primal instinct that is meant to ensure our survival as a species. If you didn't get along with the tribe, you were either killed or banished (which surely meant you would die without the protection of the tribe).

There's also downsides to this communal desire. Think about this. When one tribe ran across another tribe, they were not primally driven to coexist but rather to murder them and take their women as booty, right? That, or just run from the other tribe. That's because it's also instinctual to identify with a social community with specific identifiable similarities. That can mean race, class, geographical location, belief systems, etc. Would you agree? This is where nationalism and racism and any other type of segregational thought comes from.

So, when one tribe met another tribe, they would instantly recognize a difference in the other tribe whether that be race or simply that they were not part of their tribe (geographical location). That difference sparked a primal fear, and that primal fear is a necessary survival mechanism. I mean, no species would last very long if it didn't have a fear of that which is different. A mouse should not instinctively suspect the best of a cat's intentions.

So, in that way, I think our primal instincts are detrimental to our survival today, because we have a society in which we don't need to fear our neighbor as much as primitive man needed. This is why I believe in individualism, because we don't need to live in such fear of our neighbors anymore. We can now work to persuade people to "judge a man by the content of his character, not by his..." geographical location, belief system, race, class, etc.

Tangent over.

This taps some kind of primal fear inside me. I think that's where the Lovecraft beasts are waiting to emerge. I get uncomfortable just watching the clip.

Oh MAN! I love storm chasing vids. I definitely want to see a tornado sometime. But I'm also afraid. I think that the primal fear attracts me.

"from the hugely underrated film Primal Fear."

So true.