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Topic	Movie Club Topic 3 - Murder by Marnie: Hunt for the Blue Hand Stalker Lobster
Seginustemple 05/21/21 12:43:38 AM #276:	Saint Maud Another tightly controlled slow burn from A24's boutique horror shop. The genre has been branching in an interesting direction in both style and content recently, pairing sleek and classy-looking productions with restrained and minimal stories often focused on the female aspect of horror. Unfortunately I don't think Maud hits as hard as her contemporaries in this arena. Morfydd Clark gives an unnerving performance but we kind of know where her character is going from scene one and the story takes no real twists or turns to get there. It ends up being a well-executed but bare-bones character study and cautionary tale of god as self-image. However it's a promising start for Rose Glass (excellent name, right?), who I believe is the first director we've had who's younger than I am. The highlights for me were the subtle distortions on Maud's face in her moments of rapture, the shot of her in the dark at Amanda's birthday party, and the way the scares hit on the off-beat. It's interesting that the character is isolated from organized religion, this lack of community seems to amplify her connection to the divine. One thing I didn't quite track was the meaning of the large bug she saw crawling around throughout the movie. Was it merely a sign of delusion? Guilt or grief? I'm sure some broader Christian iconography slipped by me too. Self-immolation is becoming a familiar trend after Hereditary/Midsommar. What is it with people burning themselves? I guess for Catholics it's purification by fire which is not nearly as cool as Tibetan Buddhists doing it in political protest without moving a muscle. Chad Buddha > Virgin Mary 6/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc <cite>Seginustemple posted [p:954136887] in Movie Club... [t:79402657]...</cite> <quote>Saint Maud Another tightly controlled slow burn from A24's boutique horror shop. The genre has been branching in an interesting direction in both style and content recently, pairing sleek and classy-looking productions with restrained and minimal stories often focused on the female aspect of horror. Unfortunately I don't think Maud hits as hard as her contemporaries in this arena. Morfydd Clark gives an unnerving performance but we kind of know where her character is going from scene one and the story takes no real twists or turns to get there. It ends up being a well-executed but bare-bones character study and cautionary tale of god as self-image. However it's a promising start for Rose Glass (excellent name, right?), who I believe is the first director we've had who's younger than I am. The highlights for me were the subtle distortions on Maud's face in her moments of rapture, the shot of her in the dark at Amanda's birthday party, and the way the scares hit on the off-beat. It's interesting that the character is isolated from organized religion, this lack of community seems to amplify her connection to the divine. One thing I didn't quite track was the meaning of the large bug she saw crawling around throughout the movie. Was it merely a sign of delusion? Guilt or grief? I'm sure some broader Christian iconography slipped by me too. Self-immolation is becoming a familiar trend after Hereditary/Midsommar. What is it with people burning themselves? I guess for Catholics it's purification by fire which is not nearly as cool as Tibetan Buddhists doing it in political protest without moving a muscle. Chad Buddha > Virgin Mary 6/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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