“all i ever did was try and show him love and affection.”
sorry, i loved it!
if i had to do a ranking of my favorite genres of horror, i don’t know that i can say with confidence that folk horror wouldn’t be at the very top.
i mean, i love psychological horror, and i love body horror, but i feel like for whatever reason folk horror always hits a different note for me. i almost always rate it more favorably than a lot of my peers and i’m sure it has a lot to do with the themes that are always on display, themes that i love.
grief.
loss.
rebirth.
starve acre truthfully benefits from amazing performances from morfydd clark and matt smith. where smith is more reserved in his role, a quiet storm of detachedness stemming from an abusive upbringing, clark’s juliette is an image of grief, trapped in a sterile marriage and now forced to face every parent’s nightmare. they lead a very emotionally fraught film that reminds me a great of lamb, another film i loved (though more than this.)
i love how empty the scenery in this is, very fitting given the title of the film. the land here is inhospitable, and the people that choose to live here are just as empty and barren. the emptiness in these people stems from what they lack, maybe because they never had a chance at it.
they’re starving for love.
it’s a central theme to the film. juliette is starved for love from richard, who was starved for love from his father. the only thing they can agree TO love is their son, and when he dies, so does any chance they had to be a family. it’s particularly devastating because, as we see later in the film, richard loves owen in a way that his father never loved him. as a result, it is his death that is the catalyst for everything that comes next.
the rabbit as a symbol of rebirth when held in the eyes of richard is also something that i keyed in on really quickly, and it in itself it such a psychological tactic. owen’s sacrifice opens the door to dandelion jack’s rebirth, and only richard, the once past sacrificial lamb, is his new harbinger.
a film that won’t be for everyone but one i will eat up every time.
“all i ever did was try and show him love and affection.”
sorry, i loved it!
if i had to do a ranking of my favorite genres of horror, i don’t know that i can say with confidence that folk horror wouldn’t be at the very top.
i mean, i love psychological horror, and i love body horror, but i feel like for whatever reason folk horror always hits a different note for me. i almost always rate it more favorably than a lot of my peers and i’m sure it has a lot to do with the themes that are always on display, themes that i love.
grief.
loss.
rebirth.
starve acre truthfully benefits from amazing performances from morfydd clark and matt smith. where smith is more reserved in his role, a quiet storm of detachedness stemming from an abusive upbringing, clark’s juliette is an image of grief, trapped in a sterile marriage and now forced to face every parent’s nightmare. they lead a very emotionally fraught film that reminds me a great of lamb, another film i loved (though more than this.)
i love how empty the scenery in this is, very fitting given the title of the film. the land here is inhospitable, and the people that choose to live here are just as empty and barren. the emptiness in these people stems from what they lack, maybe because they never had a chance at it.
they’re starving for love.
it’s a central theme to the film. juliette is starved for love from richard, who was starved for love from his father. the only thing they can agree TO love is their son, and when he dies, so does any chance they had to be a family. it’s particularly devastating because, as we see later in the film, richard loves owen in a way that his father never loved him. as a result, it is his death that is the catalyst for everything that comes next.
the rabbit as a symbol of rebirth when held in the eyes of richard is also something that i keyed in on really quickly, and it in itself it such a psychological tactic. owen’s sacrifice opens the door to dandelion jack’s rebirth, and only richard, the once past sacrificial lamb, is his new harbinger.
a film that won’t be for everyone but one i will eat up every time.
