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Do you own your stuff, or does your stuff own you? (DeepThoughtsByShmoop™.)

Sara Goldfarb has reached a point in her life where she thinks she opens the fridge, grabs a snack, picks up the remote, and turns on the TV. In fact, the fridge is pushing food at her like a drug dealer slinging smack on a street corner. And Sara doesn't turn on the TV, the TV turns on her. (Not like that. Keep your head out of the gutter. OK, maybe a little like that.)

Sara is sad and lonely, so she gets her thrills through food and TV. They don't make her happy, but she doesn't know how to break the cycle. Her friends don't help, suggesting diets to her that get her obsessed thinking about food. And even though Harry means well when he gets her a new TV, he does more harm than good. Check out what he says when he buys it for her.

HARRY: I finally asked myself, right, what's her fix? Television, right? I mean, if ever there's a TV junkie, it's the old lady.

Did you catch the key word there? It's "junkie." This is coming from a legit heroin addict. Buying Sara a TV is like giving someone in AA a Budweiser. Aronofsky shows this with the camera angle on Sara when the TV is delivered. She is dwarfed by the massive set towering over it. It has ruled her life.

That's nothing compared to the fridge, which almost eats her. During her worst hallucination, she imagines the fridge literally growing teeth, stomping around the apartment, and trying to eat her. On diet pills, she starves herself, but food is always on her mind. In her nightmares, she becomes food. She is devoured by her own obsession.

You'll never look at the little light inside the fridge the same way again. When it comes on, does that mean the refrigerator has an idea, and has decided to make you into lunch? Our sources say maybe.