To touch, look at, even be in the same room with a dead person we must not be emotionally involved unless we're mourning. Though Stopkewich has astutely recognized the contradictions in our uneasy relationship to the dead, she doesn't seem to have examined her own uneasy relationship to the story she tells. She doesn't seem to have asked herself the difficult but essential questions of why she was compelled to make a movie about necrophilia and what her personal metaphoric relationship to the subject is. Which leaves me wondering if most of the answer is that she recognized the obvious market potential of the sensational t opic. It's somewhat disingenuous of Stopkewich to urge us to seriously contemplate necrophilia when her movie ultimately dismisses it with a nod to conventional mores.
Storytellers can always resort to depicting without inflection the havoc any behavior can wr eak.
And because Matt comes to a bad end through his association with Sandra, Kissed becomes a simple moral tale we've all seen before. Send us a message.