Developing a theory of the Skinny Rat Boy archetype in which there is a precise length of too-long stringy hair that shifts the character from piteous but maybe hot?? to Villainy
Do you have any idea how hard it is to search for "skinny guy in movie whose hair is a little too long and usually is maybe a drug dealer or a stalker but also maybe likes poetry and is sensitive???"
Is this actually a thing or did I just make up a kind of guy
@ingrid wow this is aimed directly at my frame of reference
@philnelson Phil it haunts me
@ingrid waifish guy who serves as emasculated foil to male lead yeah
dylan moran did that in "shaun of the dead"
@ingrid keiran culkin in "scott pilgrim vs the world?"
@ingrid mathew lillard, hackers (1995)
@ingrid not to massively reply here but (a) i have been nerd sniped and (b) actually ziggy falls into the "emasculated foil for the rugged men" trope with the dock workers
@ingrid "we can't get Jeremy Davis, who have you got?"
@ingrid so everything Steve Buscemi has ever done? 
@wilbr I think it's time constrained to youth
@ingrid This sounds like River’s Edge territory? At least in some broad strokes.
@zbarocas yes!! Very much in this vein. Araki also often deploys this Kind of Guy
Mitch from Dazed and Confused: shoulder length hair, innocent
Ziggy Sobotka from The Wire season 2: mostly in "overdue for a haircut" territory, more pitiful than villain but still kinda sucks
That guy in the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror: basically bottom of the neck, absolutely a predator
Further research is needed