@technomancy I wish I could see it again for the first time.

Fooled you. I'm not giving away anything.

Go watch it.

I generally don't care about spoilers, but this is one of the extremely rare cases where I'm convinced that the less you know about the film, the better. Go in with a blank slate and enjoy the ride.

Which is hard, because there's so much I want to talk about.

I'll drop some extremely, extremely mild stuff about overall influences in reply to this. But I urge you not to read if you haven't seen it already.

One of the most incredible films ever made. Watch it.

Am I livetooting this? I think I'm livetooting this.

Its morbin time

Jared Leto has convinced a guy with a helicopter to land on a CG mountain so he can set a trap for vampire bats, I guess?

Leto cuts his hand and bats freak out and fly everywhere.

Smash cut to a 25-year-ago flashback, where we recognize the young Leto because he still has two crutches.

Leto is dressed in a black cape and has two crutches, in a way designed to let the director talk at length in the commentary track about how they tried to make him very batlike.

They're in a children's hospital, and teen hooligans are outside the window hollering "look at the freaks!" even though nobody is remotely visible from their vantage point.

Young Leto has a strong British accent which old Leto utterly lacks.

Lucien (young Leto) collapses, and nobody comes to look at the beeping machine to which he is connected. Fortunately, the terminally ill child in the bed next door knows how fuses work, and pulls a blown one from the machine and replaces it with a pen spring. That's not safe!

Michael promises to find a cure for whatever completely different diseases ail them, in a letter, which conveniently blows right out the window and into the hands of the teen hooligans, who laugh at it and play keepaway while Lucien hollers PLEASE

But it impresses the hospital director, who lavishes praise on Michael for bypassing an important safety device. "You have a gift, Michael."

No mention of the nurses who failed to respond to Lucien flatlining two seconds after walking in the door.

Hospital director is so impressed that he sends Michael away, to better develop his fuse-replacing skills.

Then he smacks one hooligan with a crutch and gets a beatdown.

Then the Dr. Nichols (the hospital director, played by Jared Harris) turns up to rescue him.

Then a cut back to him talking to Michael about going away??

He is so famous that he wins the Nobel Prize, and of course Dr. Nichols emcees the ceremony, and adult Lucien is there, becrutched and cranky.

Then another smash cut, to some undefined time period, when Michael (whose last name is Morbius) has successfully pivoted from replacing fuses to being the world's foremost expert on bloodborne illness, and has invented True Blood.

Okay, Leto is Michael Morbius and got the Nobel, but dissed the King of Sweden for some reason.

The other kid just vanished, presumably to hone his fuse-replacing skills.

And now we're in New York, and... have I mixed up who's Micheal and who's Lucien? And one of them calls the other Milo for some reason? I have no idea who anybody is.

Morbius likes to make origami animals, in the way I’m sure is going to come back in the last act.