This film will get under your skin!

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2016)

I disagree with the first reviewer here, who notes "ugly imagery throughout." Many of the scenes were gorgeous views of trees, forest, dappled light. Those beautifully shots scenes, combined with hauntingly gorgeous music, were quite an odd combination with the action: characters moving woodenly, awkwardly through the forest, etc. I enjoyed almost every aspect of this film -- just a couple of scenes that were hard or impossible to watch (both thankfully fairly short). For sure, I will be thinking about the ideas the film presented for many days ahead...Asborbing its truth consciously and subconsciously. The main "message" I took away is that any social demands about how relationships are "supposed" to be will inevitably warp those relations. The plot pushes the warping to an extreme, but to me that extreme just made the film's message that much more powerful. Relationships between significant others can't be dictated or controlled by social norms. When they are... bad things happen, very bad things.