I saw this movie recently, and I must say, much like many French thrillers/dramas, it is extreamly shocking/disturbing.
The movie revolves around a pregnant woman who gets in a car accident, where her husband is killed, while she and her unborn baby survive.
Four months later, she is about to give birth and on Christmas eve, she is attacked and tormented by an unknown woman who wants her unborn baby.
This is not a classic ''home intrusion'' movie. It is far more sinister, extreamly gory and very disturbing from the begining till the end.
There isn't that tiering play of cat and mouse, random banging on windows and all that jazz, which I liked a lot. Movie's scares are elsewhere.
The most peculiar thing about the movie is that[SPOILER - highlight to read]: you will at some point feel no remorse for the victim, and feel sorrow for the attacker.
This is an excellent movie and I fully recomend it.
For those who have seen it, what are your thoughts?
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في هذا العالم ثلاثة أشخاص أفسدوا البشرية : راعي غنم , طبيب و راكب الجمال , و راكب الجمال هو أسوأ نشال و أسوأ مشعوذ بين الثلاثة
I can't remember feeling what you mentioned in the spoiler, what point did you mean? I need to watch it again. Or do you mean when we [SPOILER - highlight to read]: found out the attacker's baby was killed in the car accident ?
I mean more [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Sarah's obnoxious behaviour towards her mother and general all around rotten attitude.
Also [SPOILER - highlight to read]: the most disturbing scene for me is when she kills her mother and she calls after her while she's dying. But then next scene I didn't feel she was disturbed by this as much as I was.
I am not saying the other woman wasn't sick, she was especially [SPOILER - highlight to read]: the way she brutally murdered the cops, and the kid from the riots and SArah's boss.
I felt sorry for Sarah generally, but her attitude altogether was somewhat rotten.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think she deserves what happens because of it, but I think it sort of blurs the stereotypical victim potret - if that makes any sense.
You feel all sorts of feelings for every character.
I think this goes into the whole ''mother instinct'', which I think would have even more shocking and disturbing effect on me if I was a mother myself, because as a daughter [SPOILER - highlight to read]: her killing her mother, especially by accident made me feel so disturbed and uncomftable
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في هذا العالم ثلاثة أشخاص أفسدوا البشرية : راعي غنم , طبيب و راكب الجمال , و راكب الجمال هو أسوأ نشال و أسوأ مشعوذ بين الثلاثة
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