Oh this quote from Anne Carson kinda relavant to my notes on previous post about #TheWitchWhoCameFromTheSea #HouseOfPsychoticWomen

'In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity.'

Oh this quote from Anne Carson kinda relavant to my notes on previous post about #TheWitchWhoCameFromTheSea

'In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity.'

Well this movie is not about an actual witch from the sea. That would have been cool though.

This was pretty disturbing honestly. Haunting flashbacks of abuse (which were harrowing), and Molly is really deeply full of rage and so vulnerable, and really complex.

We watch her drink, take pills, and meet men, have sex, and then exact her revenge.

The ending was really sad, but had a lot of sympathy for her plight, which a lot of films I have seen, don't really do this.

I find the title a bit odd but there is a small part of the film with the story of venus, and I think the kind of circumstances Molly has lived through, lends itself to a mythology like tale, like when women are wronged and turn into monsters.

It was really sad/tough watch but beautifully made film.

#HouseOfPsychoticWomen #Films #Letterboxd #TheWitchWhoCameFromTheSea