In her Bugonia movie analysis “An Intimate Portrait of Humanity at Its Worst,” Shirley Li brilliantly observes that in the movie’s central characters Teddy and Michele are both delusional heroes. She writes, “They’re so self-important and solipsistic that they’re oblivious to how heartless they’ve become.” To add to their alienation, they cannot listen to each other. Li writes that their “conversations tend to resemble a feedback loop, in which neither character is willing to compromise”: Teddy is certain Michelle is a dangerous alien; Michelle is certain Teddy suffers a mental illness that requires urgent help.
Saddled with delusions of grandeur, these cosplay heroes from the fictional movie resemble the cosplay or fake hero and notorious fraudster Elizabeth Holmes featured in the HBO documentary: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. Your job is to write a 1,000-word essay in which you compare the theme of the delusional hero as is embodied in Bugonia and Out for Blood. Explore the following questions: Is the hero a product of sincere madness, cynicism, both? Does the hero possess a fragment of truth that they confuse for a whole or absolute truth and this confusion makes them go crazy? Does this type of fake hero represent certain pathologies roiling in our society? Explore these questions in your comparison essay.
Cinemorphosis 
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