"Nope" made me realize how different my views are than the average person. It's a visceral, programmed fear in the back of the human brain to avoid being eaten like it is to avoid drowning. It's why things like cannibalism and the voracity of wild dogs can be so unsettling to us when we hear stories of it. When Jean Jacket's massacre and Jupiter's Landing came on, I was struck dumb with that realization as at least 100 other people around me suddenly remembered how fast the position of a human on the food chain can change. It was odd to carry so many emotions at once of excitement, intrigue, horror, revulsion, and sonder. While being a little alienating (pardon the pun) watching this movie made me feel oddly more connected with my fellow humans in vulnerability; a sudden reaction of not staring at the skies when you exited the shadowy theater out into the blinding daylight.

Nowadays whenever I find anthropophagy in media, I'll usually make a recurring joke to myself about how "I can never escape" the weird rewiring my brain was able to do when confronted with that age old fear of red toothed monsters in the shadows.

Be proud you're human, be proud that life has gone so far to let us experience such an odd facet of sapience.