I gain a lot by reading others' reviews here on IMDB, and I agree with the camp pseudo-Lynch, Italian and Japanese, 70s touches to the aesthetic, and bookend title and credits. What I like to touch on is something else, what I read from it.
Mia Wasikowska shone in this role, and is practically the biggest factor in my rating. Not her alone I guess, because direction and stage-production is contributory. BUT... what I noticed and came with were lots of disarming shots of Mia Wasikowska's body. In its naturalness, and openness, or frankness, and Wasikowska had the presence to pull her performance off, with flightiness but down-to-earthness too. A lot can be said about a woman in her objectification, but Wasikowska, also particularly emoting in her facial expressions, imbues the character an internality, that I really appreciated.
I want to remain with the Body as a theme of the movie, and I think this is where the tension is, in this movie. The Body or flesh is taught to be sinful, in our culture, and possession or fight for it, evokes that edge to the action of this film, certainly. Structurally, the film features the turnabout of this action as a plaything, in a way similar to the Ellen Paige-lead movie, Hard Candy. But I think I appreciate the shots of Mia Wasikowska and the frankness of her body, more here, as distinguishing and distinct.
Wasikowska's performance was the main thing for me, though. The rest of the movie felt like a clever shell of something that just slightly didn't quite achieve solid brilliance to hang it all together. A low budget movie that was interesting, with obvious visual references. Mia Wasikowska shone in yet another one of these roles (another IMDB reviewer mentioned Double, from Wasikowska's filmography. Yep).
Mia Wasikowska shone in this role, and is practically the biggest factor in my rating. Not her alone I guess, because direction and stage-production is contributory. BUT... what I noticed and came with were lots of disarming shots of Mia Wasikowska's body. In its naturalness, and openness, or frankness, and Wasikowska had the presence to pull her performance off, with flightiness but down-to-earthness too. A lot can be said about a woman in her objectification, but Wasikowska, also particularly emoting in her facial expressions, imbues the character an internality, that I really appreciated.
I want to remain with the Body as a theme of the movie, and I think this is where the tension is, in this movie. The Body or flesh is taught to be sinful, in our culture, and possession or fight for it, evokes that edge to the action of this film, certainly. Structurally, the film features the turnabout of this action as a plaything, in a way similar to the Ellen Paige-lead movie, Hard Candy. But I think I appreciate the shots of Mia Wasikowska and the frankness of her body, more here, as distinguishing and distinct.
Wasikowska's performance was the main thing for me, though. The rest of the movie felt like a clever shell of something that just slightly didn't quite achieve solid brilliance to hang it all together. A low budget movie that was interesting, with obvious visual references. Mia Wasikowska shone in yet another one of these roles (another IMDB reviewer mentioned Double, from Wasikowska's filmography. Yep).