One of the most fascinating and confrontative psychological portraits of not only the characters on screen but arguably anyone who watches the film. Marleen Gorris's direction is incredibly precise and revealing about the three women who freely admit to the murder of a male shopkeeper as well as their intensifying contempt and exhaustion living under the patriarchy. There are such great moments of editing and sound cues throughout this film that motivate the audience to feel like we're investigating these women and the crime, that we're unraveling the extent to which this system has affected them and weighed on them. But what really makes this film so incredible and so captivating to think about and explore is the crime itself: its seeming mundanity, the unspoken solidarity, the shrugging attitude the women adopt their arrests with, and THE ENDING!! Dr. van den Bos becomes the perfect person to interrogate and eventually become converted to their unspoken rage. This is a film that communicates so much with its direction, with its phenomenal acting, with its editing. It's a full package experience that ends on a piece of catharsis that may not fully solve the problems of our protagonists but God does it feel so good. Points also for the synth score which lent an almost sci-fi-like edge to some scenes.
One of the most fascinating and confrontative psychological portraits of not only the characters on screen but arguably anyone who watches the film. Marleen Gorris's direction is incredibly precise and revealing about the three women who freely admit to the murder of a male shopkeeper as well as their intensifying contempt and exhaustion living under the patriarchy. There are such great moments of editing and sound cues throughout this film that motivate the audience to feel like we're investigating these women and the crime, that we're unraveling the extent to which this system has affected them and weighed on them. But what really makes this film so incredible and so captivating to think about and explore is the crime itself: its seeming mundanity, the unspoken solidarity, the shrugging attitude the women adopt their arrests with, and THE ENDING!! Dr. van den Bos becomes the perfect person to interrogate and eventually become converted to their unspoken rage. This is a film that communicates so much with its direction, with its phenomenal acting, with its editing. It's a full package experience that ends on a piece of catharsis that may not fully solve the problems of our protagonists but God does it feel so good. Points also for the synth score which lent an almost sci-fi-like edge to some scenes.
