Honestly, have a flick through some of the other reviews, and you'll find a few self-worshipping fools chanting the "if you didn't get it, this film's not for you" sort of mantra.
The film is basic surrealism, designed to convey what it's like for women to face real danger, everyday, but to find themselves helpless, ignored and even disbelieved when something very bad happens to them. Great, we get it. We know it. You'd have to be pretty ignorant as a human being to not know that some women face some horrific events in their lives at the hands of men, and all too often the Police are of zero help when it happens to them.
Does this film help?
No, not at all. This film is a basic time-looper that places the victim in her home, day after day, and a "faceless" (masked) man appears everyday to attempt to kill her. The woman faces a lack of interest, help and support from everyone else in the film, including her husband.
Honestly, this film is crud. It's stupid and non-sensical to play the husband in this way. No husband would walk out in such circumstances and in such a way, abandoning his wife so casually and nonchalantly to the hands of a faceless killer.
I get the meaning - however, there was simply no tension, no real drama and no real impact from this film. It would have been far better to have played a real (stalker/harasser/rapist type) story that's actually occurred, and shared the real plight of a real woman, which would have been far more impactful and distressing to watch. It would have created real tension and real fear for people to understand, and help others, who don't seem to "get it" (the plight of many women) understand how powerless many women feel, and the fear that many women feel simply trying to live their lives.
It's a simple premise, but they've chosen a really odd way to present it. It's missed the mark by some distance for me.
The film is basic surrealism, designed to convey what it's like for women to face real danger, everyday, but to find themselves helpless, ignored and even disbelieved when something very bad happens to them. Great, we get it. We know it. You'd have to be pretty ignorant as a human being to not know that some women face some horrific events in their lives at the hands of men, and all too often the Police are of zero help when it happens to them.
Does this film help?
No, not at all. This film is a basic time-looper that places the victim in her home, day after day, and a "faceless" (masked) man appears everyday to attempt to kill her. The woman faces a lack of interest, help and support from everyone else in the film, including her husband.
Honestly, this film is crud. It's stupid and non-sensical to play the husband in this way. No husband would walk out in such circumstances and in such a way, abandoning his wife so casually and nonchalantly to the hands of a faceless killer.
I get the meaning - however, there was simply no tension, no real drama and no real impact from this film. It would have been far better to have played a real (stalker/harasser/rapist type) story that's actually occurred, and shared the real plight of a real woman, which would have been far more impactful and distressing to watch. It would have created real tension and real fear for people to understand, and help others, who don't seem to "get it" (the plight of many women) understand how powerless many women feel, and the fear that many women feel simply trying to live their lives.
It's a simple premise, but they've chosen a really odd way to present it. It's missed the mark by some distance for me.