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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Mindhunter: How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?
 
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TheBizzness
Oct 5, 2004

Reign on me.

Mob posted:


I decided the ants meant the cat died due to some local youth who is a future serial killer

This was my thinking as well.

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TheBizzness
Oct 5, 2004

Reign on me.
 My read of the cat/laundromat scenes are that they are showing Wendy's loneliness after choosing the FBI over her lover.

She wants to make friends with and then probably adopt the cat so she has some company which is why she's so disappointed that she never gets to see it.

And then as mentioned a page or two ago the ant filled cat food can could suggest the cat was killed by a serial killer in the making.

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TheBizzness
Oct 5, 2004

Reign on me.

evenworse username posted:

I thought the thing with the cat was just part of showing how Wendy becomes fairly rapidly disillusioned with her FBI work. She comes down, thinking that she's going to be doing important work with scientific and academic value, with this unexpectedly huge budget. She'll be working with like-minded professionals who respect her. There's even an (assumedly) adorable cat to charm in the laundry room.

But the agents refuse to use her methodology, the director makes her do his dirty work, and increasingly her colleagues are taking the project in directions that have no scientific merit and doing things she finds unethical. And then instead of an adorable cat friend, she has a horrible can full of ants.

I thought it was really effective.

Yeah this makes a lot of sense.

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