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January 3, 2013
This film is not a thriller. It is an exploration of the conflation of sex and violence, where women--still clinging to the stories and myths of their girlhood dreams, the inheritance of their mothers--are relegated to the place of second class citizen, only so many bitches to be gazed at, dismembered, and discarded, in a masculine world.
The film that Campion obviously set out to make: a study of female sexual psychology in a world of hypermasculine violence. The narrative is from a female point of view, a similarly disjointed narrative connected only by the protagonist's emotional journey, set in a similarly surreal version of New York City.
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