teeny drama

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2007)

I have seen "the Director's Cut" today, actually after midnight in a huge salon together with about 20 people or so, rather alone than with too many.
Interesting, I have tried to search some other hints as just horror and possession, but I didn't find any, so I'm writing my point of view now.
I couldn't find anything speaking against a common case of hysteria playing the chief role in the behavior of Regan. There are too many signs left everywhere in the film that can justify this statement.
First of all Regan is a 12 old girl: a very difficult age indeed. This is the age when a young girl replaces the love to her mother towards it to her father. We don't know anything about Regan's father, he has just left, and the mother is, of course, guilty of it. There is a scene when the Regan is in the bed with her mother, this is the last point she still (sexually) attracted by her mother. But the young lady has began to feel herself appealed by men: for example, the story about the man with the gray horse, she wants to ride with him. She is jealous to her mother's friend and wants to kill him, which also happens. It may still be just an imagination, but I'm think everything is in the brain of the girl, this was said, too.
Everything happens in the bed of the girl, in the night: that should be her dreams. I can imagine a young sexually frustrated lady could have such nightmares. Yes, this is hysteria.
The absence of the father and the need of them is depicted by the roles of both priests. It is conspicuous how oft the word "father" is used in the film.
The younger lives and loves his mother, feels guilty about her death: a very common "oedipus complex". He is the man playing the prince in this modern saga about the sleeping beauty. He sees his mother in the girl and falls in love with her. He rescues her, "kissing" or swallow the evil, and the evil is the suppressed libido of both. After the act (their orgasm indeed) he falls down the stairs, not being a man any more for a while at least (Erich From: "A man is a man only when he has erection") and she is free from the demon, she is not girl any more but becomes a young woman.
A wonderful modern fairy tale. I am really very impressed of the film.
By the way Sigmund Freud said in his lectures about the psychoanalysis that probably many women are convicted in the middle ages to be witches or possessed by the evil just because they had a hysteria or similar symptoms led back to suppressed sexual wishes.