Ren Mac

So much juxtaposition! It's like everything in the movie has its opposite and everything seems to have a point, without spoon feeding it too much - the slowness feels purposeful to allow you to think more deeply about everything that's happening and the social commentary they're making, the more I think about it the more hidden meanings seem to pop out at me, then I wonder if im assigning reasons for things where there aren't reasons like it can be argued religion can do?! *SPOILERS* A bit I got stuck on was the reason for breaking the 4th wall in the scenes at the start and end and showing the movie set, but I think i just got it! i think the start could be symbolic of telling other people the story of your sexual abuse, its like a reminder that we weren't there to see it, we are only hearing (watching) the story, to be told to suspend our disbelief with this backdrop serves (i think) to give us the disbelief that people often start off with in real life when a person discloses their sexual abuse to them - if that makes sense, like reverse psychology the line that stuck with me the most from this movie was "this life is short, the next one is for eternity" it made me feel like if your belief was so strong that that is true, it makes sense to me a mother could feel like what she was doing was for the greater good, but then there is the grief and loss of the son, the daughters abuser - which makes me wonder if theyre implying the parents thought it was her fault he abused her (she says she loved him back) also the household honouring of the abuser is a trauma in itself, its like she understands it was bad, but she was groomed oh and the nurse putting the tube down her throat feels like a juxtaposition of her SA there is the post mortem photograph with the eyes painted, trying to make the deceased look more lifelike, while her daughter is losing her life by "choice" and encouragement she resurrects as Naan, allowing her old self to die so that she can be reborn and saved, i thought it was cool they went with the letters switched around symmetrically cleansing by fire also very symbolic, purifying, for the nurse and the daughter, I had this moment of is the nurse going to die? when you also have a moment of did the daughter actually die The nun reveals she knows how the daughter escaped and agrees to be quiet as long as she will be living in better conditions - or is she making sense of the reality she saw through religious visions? or something in between, god saved the girl but what she saw was real but still an act of god agh so much more to think about still this movie is like a freaking onion there are so many layers i could GO ON