To begin, the gore was awesome and I loved the special effects. I also really liked the candid filming style, it made the movie feel a lot more up-close and intimate. As a gory body horror movie alone, it was gross and entertaining.
The surface content of this movie is almost purely the main protagonist's physical deterioration. However, while watching Thanatomorphose I couldn't help but notice the parallels between depression and Laura's rotting body. The movie starts out by picturing Laura's unhealthy and abusive sex life. She is treated extremely roughly, and is even shown being forced and coerced into sex. She also loses her job, which could be a major source of stress. It's really clear early on that Laura is not happy. She loses almost all interest in her sculpting, something she seemed to have been passionate about before. As her condition worsens, she hungers more and more for sex to make her feel better. She grows so sick that she refuses to leave the apartment, and barely even gets out of bed. When Laura finally picks up her art again, she is seen pouring her pain and literal pieces of herself into her sculpt, a way of self-expressing. The final piece that convinced me that thanatomorphose is about mental health was the fact that she never saw a doctor. Despite her critical state, she refused any kind of medical care. Sometimes people with mental illness tend to invalidate their problems and the severity of them, so they instead refuse medical help and instead try to patch themselves up all alone.
I relate to Laura, which is why her symptoms were so obvious to me. To me, thanatomorphose is a reminder to take care of yourself.
The surface content of this movie is almost purely the main protagonist's physical deterioration. However, while watching Thanatomorphose I couldn't help but notice the parallels between depression and Laura's rotting body. The movie starts out by picturing Laura's unhealthy and abusive sex life. She is treated extremely roughly, and is even shown being forced and coerced into sex. She also loses her job, which could be a major source of stress. It's really clear early on that Laura is not happy. She loses almost all interest in her sculpting, something she seemed to have been passionate about before. As her condition worsens, she hungers more and more for sex to make her feel better. She grows so sick that she refuses to leave the apartment, and barely even gets out of bed. When Laura finally picks up her art again, she is seen pouring her pain and literal pieces of herself into her sculpt, a way of self-expressing. The final piece that convinced me that thanatomorphose is about mental health was the fact that she never saw a doctor. Despite her critical state, she refused any kind of medical care. Sometimes people with mental illness tend to invalidate their problems and the severity of them, so they instead refuse medical help and instead try to patch themselves up all alone.
I relate to Laura, which is why her symptoms were so obvious to me. To me, thanatomorphose is a reminder to take care of yourself.