Sick of trolls, a feminist blogger starts a satirical “pick up artist” website. When she is inundated with misogynistic fans who don’t get the joke, she decides to keep the rouse up for a whole year, to expose it later for publicity. But when she falls in love with her fake persona’s greatest opponent, she must choose between her ego and her heart.

My sense of the story is that it’s about a young woman who sets up a blog as a honeypot to attract and expose mysoginist ?trolls only to find herself attracted to the worst one of all. ?Attracted to the point where she must ?meet him in person.

I thinks this could be a compelling story. ?And I guess it could work as a comedy. ?But I suggest for your consideration that it could work even better as a dark psychodrama. ? She starts the blog as a joke — and then it becomes serious, deadly serious.

Think about it: what does it reveal about the woman that she finds herself attracted to a man who epitomizes everything she is supposed to loathe in men? ? What demons lurk in the?shadows of?her unconscious that this particular troll appeals to, arouses to conscious action?

Since it’s a comedy, I suppose the Big Reveal could be that when they meet face to face she discovers he’s a clean-cut, well-mannered nice guy, maybe even a milquetoast wimp, ?playing a bad guy role on the Internet. ?Okay. But what does that say about him, that he’s capable of fabricating such an obnoxious online avatar? ?What demons lurk in the shadows of his own unconscious that only come out to play on the Internet?

I suggest ?the premise of this story ?would make a great setup for an updated version of ?the classic “Blue Velvet” (1986). ??In that movie, a naive young man’s attraction to and then obsession with a beautiful, mysterious, deeply troubled woman sends him on a hero’s journey– a journey into the heart of darkness, the darkness, the shadow lands of his own psyche.

Could it be time for an update, version 2.0 of that journey into the heart of darkness? And one taken by a woman?

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