MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!
I adore especially the little detail of Modesta having (in many scenes throughout the entire show) a single fly buzzing while hovering above her or silently seated on her; a cruel sadistic reminder of her origins of poverty and of her nature itself, of violence, hunger, filth and death... haunting her throughout her journey of liberation.
Modesta being literally born on the very first day of the 20th century: she's not just a person, but a metaphor of the radical change that this new century imposed. She isn't shaped by it as much as she actively pushes against it, breaks the rules, exposes hypocrisy.
And her finding the sea at the very end, the symbol of having achieved the begining of the life she wanted and deserves... ABSOLUTE CINEMA!!!!!
And even a realistic but hopeful ending with her and Beatrice, perfect!
This is exacly the kind of writing that I wanted from something like Saltburn or the new Wuthering Heights, or like a successor of Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden: a true modern neo-gothic tale, a post-colonial critique of class, an exploration of psychology, eroticism, queerness, of being an eternal outsider and a survivor shaped by trauma.
MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!
I adore especially the little detail of Modesta having (in many scenes throughout the entire show) a single fly buzzing while hovering above her or silently seated on her; a cruel sadistic reminder of her origins of poverty and of her nature itself, of violence, hunger, filth and death... haunting her throughout her journey of liberation.
Modesta being literally born on the very first day of the 20th century: she's not just a person, but a metaphor of the radical change that this new century imposed. She isn't shaped by it as much as she actively pushes against it, breaks the rules, exposes hypocrisy.
And her finding the sea at the very end, the symbol of having achieved the begining of the life she wanted and deserves... ABSOLUTE CINEMA!!!!!
And even a realistic but hopeful ending with her and Beatrice, perfect!
This is exacly the kind of writing that I wanted from something like Saltburn or the new Wuthering Heights, or like a successor of Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden: a true modern neo-gothic tale, a post-colonial critique of class, an exploration of psychology, eroticism, queerness, of being an eternal outsider and a survivor shaped by trauma.
