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I feel like I haven't seen a lot of discourse around Iron Lung as an exploration of mental illness. Maybe I've just missed it, but the first time I saw the movie, all I could think about was how familiar it felt. Not cozy, obviously, but eerily familiar. It was like seeing what it feels like to loose yourself in your own mind in such a visceral way that was neither romanticized nor pitied, but just, was.

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One of the things I haven't seen talked about with Iron Lung yet is the way Simon visually figures things out with the map. Like not once is there any dialogue about the map aside from coordinates being given, but the physical actions of the character speak for themselves. And the sequence of Simon taping the map onto the wall and extending it by hand? Absolutely phenomenal. It really speaks to the character fighting to survive even though someone else might have just said, "Well. I'm dead," and given up. There was no reason for Simon to think he would survive being dragged off the map, but he just couldn't give up.

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Shout out to the TWO set medics on Iron Lung

simon chugging isopropyl alcohol while blasting himself full of radiation

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