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Ego is a 2021 Spanish psychological horror thriller film directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas which stars María Pedraza.

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Ego is a 2021 Spanish psychological horror thriller film directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas which stars María Pedraza.

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Plot

The film is set during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain. Paloma begins using a dating website for same-sex females, for some fun. She is surprised to find on the website the profile of another girl identical to her, who threatens to replace Paloma and erase her identity.

Production

Produced by La Caña Films, the film was written by Jorge Navarro de Lemus and directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas. Pedro Vendrell Martínez was responsible for the cinematography.

Release

The film was screened at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival held in October 2021. Distributed by Begin Again Films, it was theatrically released in Spain on 1 December 2021.

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Notable quotes

“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”
— W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand (1962), pt. 3, "Hic et Ille", sect. b
“Q: Is it possible for us to identify with the Self rather than the ego? A: Without knowing the ego, we can't even touch the Self.”
— Baba Hari Dass, Mount Madonna Messenger, Watsonville, CA, August 5, 2016.
“One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.”
— Anthony de Mello, in One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 177
“The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.”
— Ramakrishna, as quoted in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) as translated by Swami Nikhilananda, p. 385
“Crosswise to all political fronts, it is the “ego” in society that offers the most resolute resistance against the decisive enlightenment. Scarcely anyone will put up with radical self-reflection on this point, not even many of those who regard themselves as enlighteners.”
— Peter Sloterdijk, in Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), as translated by M. Eldred (1987), p. 60
“The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.”
— Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)

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