On a movie and original poem
Yesterday re-watched Wish Upon, which you might consider a B-class teen horror/thriller, but I rather like. It involves a high-school woman who is poor but is given an ancient Chinese musical box that permits her to make seven wishes that will come true but cost others she knows through death or serious health damage.
I think the idea of the movie is the seven wishes the lead character makes are supposed to represent almost all the seven deadly sins. Interestingly, she seems to start with “wrath” by wishing disease and pain on a high school rival, but she also starts getting into “pride,” “greed,” and “vanity,” It is kind of the reverse order of the movie Se7en, which ends with the sin of wrath as a police officer murders a psychotic, murderous weirdo who has killed the police officer’s wife.
Wish Upon ends rather oddly with the main character wishing to erase her past and that her mother had never committed suicide but then losing her father and herself. In psychiatry, this may be called disassociation, when you block memories too painful to live with. Interestingly, the movie implies the main character flaw for the woman was excessive nostalgia/regret in wanting her mother back.
“Poem” by yours truly
Poem
Home
Gnome.
Boom
Doom
‘Shroom
Room
Tomb.