Perhaps he recognized, in the song's coolly cynical lyrics, a corrosion of spirit to match his own. 'Some of them want to abuse you / Some of them want to be abused': there are worse ways to sum up the cruel spectacles of subjugation that Lanthimos has made such a perverse specialty of.
Lanthimos's movies play like arch behavioral experiments, conducted in a laboratory filled with slow-acting nerve gas. Characters drain feeling, speak disaffectedly, but subversion persists; the abused do not succumb mindlessly to their abusers.
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