#it's the consent that's the vital ingredient in this equation

[aintgonnatakethis]

I have this game where, after watching a film, I go read its Wikipedia page. It's crazy how often what's detailed there is just... not what happened.

Today's example is Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (*cough* Daniel Craig full frontal nudity 👀)

"Dyer stages a suicide attempt"

Me, having just watched a guy clearly tweaking off his head on something and in the middle of a psychotic break: 😐😐😐

"Dyer begins to become something of a nuisance, possibly beyond Bacon's ability to tolerate him much longer."

Oh I see, whoever wrote this has some opinions about addiction and mental health, huh?

And that's not even touching on how the actual trigger point for Dyer's depression, addiction, and suicide wasn't even mentioned??? Bacon wanted Dyer to have really rough dominating sex with him and became verbally abusive when Dyer didn't want to. It was clearly the inciting incident - from the moment early on in their relationship when Dyer tried to indulge Bacon's masochism (whispering "sorry" before he starts the scene, I mean come on!) up to the point where Dyer can't get it up because he doesn't want to hurt Bacon and is viciously berated for it.

It's only after that he turns to drugs and begins the slow descent into depression and suicidality. Quite a big thing to miss out of a 'summary'. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯