JANUARY 23rd, BECOMING

What happens if my body becomes something else, something unrecognisable, yet my self is intact within? A monstrosity, a mutation?
Would it be a literal Deleuzian becoming?

A film is an assemblage, a creative one, which mobilise becoming. Singularities, melding together and expanding, tendrils shooting out and absorbing, connecting, becoming. One of these assemblages is the consciousness of a viewer, and in this intersection between spectator and the spectator, an irregular element appears, an anomaly. (Deleuze, 2012) The transformation in horror reflects upon the viewer and we are reflected in it, morphing with it, changing, and becoming. (Powell, 2005)

Powell uses Freddy Krueger as an example of limitless becoming, as his powers are literally rooted in fear and nightmarish imagination. His embodiment of the nightmare is reflected in his form, as well as the spaces he occupy -- the literal dreamspace and its form as well (Powell, 2005). Truly, he invades the most intimate, the moment of peace one is supposed to get at night, and the privacy of one's mind.