Director segment The Big Blind. Text size: A A A. It is a tense game of very tightly scripted words, and much as the loving Psychologist has an eye condition that makes any change in light painful to her, the elegant, sinuous, mostly monochrome cinematography leaves us too feeling that we are not getting the complete picture, and uncertain, as we sit in our own chairs in the dark, whether we are the analyst or the analysed. For horror also lets women be the bad girl, resilient final girl, the gleefully monstrous m other, the empowered source of terror, or the surprise murderer, often masked only by our prejudicial expectations of gender; and it allows its female characters to behave transgressively, to skewer the male gaze and to take relentless revenge against rape-happy patriarchy. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature.
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