“This Kurt/Karofsky situation has gone too far,” Rachel tells the other girls in Glee. Kurt tells Principal Sylvester, “I can’t concentrate. I don’t feel like I’m a part of this school. I feel like I’m stuck in a horror movie.”
I would argue that in the past three weeks I have felt the same way. Kudos to Murphy for giving me conversion disorder because when I watch Glee nowadays I can’t concentrate, I don’t eat (I tried to fix a sandwich during “Furt” and failed to consume even a third of it), and I often left feeling like I’m trapped in a horror movie.
To explain the horror movie feeling, I would say that I feel like I do not trust the writers of the show (although I admire them greatly). Wes Craven once said that the only way to truly terrify people was to convince them they couldn’t predict or expect anything from their writers or directors because then if they could, they might start feeling “safe.” This technique is clearly in practice as we see that Karofsky can appear anywhere at any time, kind of like Michael Myers’ uncanny ability to unplug the landlines and hit the breaker switch on any building he initially enters. Practice a wedding dance in the choir room? Karofsky’s in the door. Take your books out of your locker? There he is stealing your wedding topper (what he’s going to do with it, I can hardly guess and am not sure I want to know). Eat a healthy meal in the cafeteria before a tator tot riot? Oops, there he is again. And he’s winking.
Yes, I don’t feel safe. Not only because Karofsky’s entrances resemble a slasher movie’s basic clichés, even though it’s always a bit odd for my muscles to feel the same way on Tuesday nights as they did when I watched Paranormal Activity. My main problem is that two weeks ago I saw Kurt defy his antagonist by screaming in his face until he was basically stalking HIM into a confrontation (it reminded me of that woefully underappreciated Halloween: Twenty Years Later film where Jamie Lee Curtis actually picks up the axe herself and screams “Michael!” at the top of her lungs before locking HERSELF in a school campus in order to end the reign of terror). I reveled in seeing this form of empowerment in a bullying storyline and was actually pleased that such a confrontation led to the famous kissing scene because even though that kiss was taken without Kurt’s consent, Kurt had clearly pushed Karofsky into such a vulnerable and emotionally helpless position that he wasn’t thinking clearly and acted on his most secret desires.
Article comments
1 - Greg
It will be interesting to see what happens when Kurt goes to Dalton next week.
Yeah, i saw Puck's face in the preview. When the Dalton guys sing, he looks like he's reading to kill someone. I hope he goes after Karofsky.
2 - Carol
Goodness, the bullying situation has escalated so far that I can understand why Kurt is back to being intimidated. I understand why he runs off.