The Killing of a Sacred Deer / Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland
March 21, 2018. Watching The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the most recent movie by director and weird-master Yorgos Lanthimos, made me think of Kurt Andersen’s book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. The movie is about a cardiologist who botches an operation because he’s drunk during surgery, and his subsequent relationship with Martin, the psychologically ill son of the patient he accidentally killed. Martin has figured out, somehow, that the doctor’s recklessness is what k
