Phantasmagoria/a womans worth

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2018)

This movie needs to be understood as a bad dream in order to be appreciated. up until midway into the movie, it could have been a real scenario. After that things become too large for real life and enters into the realm of dreams and metaphors.
Kafkaesque immensely existential. With its sense of isolation and ever building anxiety. The woman is completely in love and yet blissfully trustful of a man who doesn't actually love her and uses her for her passion, vitality and inspiration.
The characters spoke with certainty and without doubt, being almost perfect archetypes for what they represented. The young girl going from complete innocence in love, to her and her house being ravished by the horrors of the world. the characters had no ambivalence when speaking. Every statement was said with conviction. People came in and ruined her house in increasingly horrible and almost humorous and even biblical ways in its magnitude until she was backed up against a wall and had to fight and scream, albeit to little too late.
The piece is an all encompassing phantasmagoria of motherhood, fatherhood, tending to ones "house" and humankind. The piece starts off with a slow tempo and retains a sense of building apprehension throughout, crescendoing to a 10 minute climax in which the movie ends where it begins, bringing things full circle.