I ended up liking the film but continue to wince at the voice-over. In your other stories in this collection, the main characters are often lost or abandoned and searching for a place to fit in. The real four-legged woman, Myrtle Corbin, exhibited in circuses during the final decades of the last century. Myrtle not only married a doctor, she bore him children, some purportedly entering the world out of one vagina, some out of the other. Unlike Sylvie, Myrtle lived in a time when difference was celebrated.
Humans are neurotic apes.
As self-appointed stewards of the Earth we have failed monumentally. I am no different from anyone else in that respect. The Canary family was simply another vehicle for investigating the notion of normalcy. Also I wondered what would happen if a family's most intimate secrets were revealed to all the members simultaneously. I grew up in a Toronto suburb called Don Mills.