![]() ![]() Grounding is desperately missing in the world these characters occupy, which is perhaps the point.The film's male protagonists are are certainly of their time they seem quite real to me. Unlike typical "horror girls," she evolves into the most profoundly disturbing idea that contemporary horror has given us: a fever dream of narcissistic-sexual pathology, trauma-based-attachment-porn made flesh.Also, the context of the story, an abandoned asylum is rendered abstractly enough that one may read it equally as a metaphor than as simply a place in the real world an image of the rotting mind where deviance waits - normally it's just a spooky old building when used in horror.The characters enter such a bottomless pit in terms of real human behavior that whether intentional or not, a sense of allegory provides grounding for the audience. A cipher onto which alternative meanings can be projected. ![]() Directors avoid pitfalls and cleverly make the genre's limits work in their favor.For example, the girl in question, an "object" in strictly horror terms, is carefully crafted to be something other than a person - she seems less an external creature than something within the characters themselves.
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