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Baby Ruby (2022)
The Actors Were Fantastic
The film just made me angry. There were good points to be made, but why, with all these good points lined up so nicely, is it ultimately down to the mother 'facing herself and being brave'?
WHY THAT?
I feel like it very seriously undermined all the other important points such as, 'be honest about your experiences as a mother - especially within families and friend groups' 'the healthcare system needs to be providing more practical and physical care for women following birth - like in France' 'PND is really a very serious thing and that's why we should be helping new parents and babies' 'make a more welcoming culture instead of having a fake culture based on notions of perfection'. Yes. Very good.
So why, after all of that, does it boil down to 'suck it up Mamma, don't be scared of yourself, pull yourself together'?
I went through all that crying and crying and crying to reach 'deal with it'?
If the credits had been a Rick Roll, I'd have forgiven this film.
Hermana muerte (2023)
Great until..
I really loved the premise of this film until the very bad morals let it down. Was it lazy writing? It was very unsatisfying to see the conclusion.
Why on earth was such a cruel fate meted out to a little girl (Rosa) who had nothing at all to do with ANY of the nonsense? Why were the two older nuns punished so harshly when the rapists were seen as a force of nature?
By the standards of the day, keeping the act quiet so mother and child could remain together would have been very brave and kind. The death was accidental. Why would the dead mother of the dead child be so full of revenge?
I tried to view the film from the position of 'women who do not stick together deserve punishment' but this does not excuse the death of the little girl by hanging.
The horror was good. The cinematography was excellent. Everything - the mood - the lighting - the soft focus. The image of the confessional lattice filled with eyes was very striking. I was completely absorbed by this film until the revelation at the end.
Weff.
What a shame.