| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Exploring the same psychological territory of parental bereavement better explored in Don’t Look Now, this avant-garde horror movie starts off well but soon gets partly-trapped in its mirror inability to solve both its dramaturgical problems alongside its characters psychological ones. Emotions, here, are expressed in purely physical and melodramatic terms - true affections are hard to find.
In Christian cultures, metaphorical female circumcision is the equivalent of the mutilation literally practised in cultures supposedly more primitive. But this is an effect of emotional repression, not a cause - and the film does not dig deep enough into such matters to offer an explanation as to why White cultures would be so gynophobic and misogynistic.
The superb acting keeps you watching because it is compelling, but the themes of gynophobia and self-repression of White women are crudely expressed. Female circumcision as an analogue of Western culture’s endemic and Christian-based fear of female sexuality requires more dramatic meat on the bones of this auto-anthropophagi tale. Nevertheless, an unusually honest look at White culture.
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