Nolan96
Mage
- Feb 12, 2022
- 506
I'm going to talk a bit about the storyline, so spoiler warning and also maybe content warning because it's a heavy film:
Basically it's about a woman who's abducted and brutally physically and psychologically tortured over a long period of time. She desperately wants to die, but they keep her just barely alive and conscious even after she's been so horribly mutilated throughout every inch of her body that long-term survival would be impossible. It's revealed in the end that her abductors are part of a cult that believes that people can see God just before they die if they've suffered severely enough, so they did it to see the spark of the divine in her eyes.
I found the movie very disturbing but well-done and insightful in a way. I think it takes a common mentality of misery-worship to its absolute extreme. I feel you could draw a comparison between that mentality and the way some people talk about people who carry on living in insurmountable pain with terminal illnesses even if they don't really want to.
Basically it's about a woman who's abducted and brutally physically and psychologically tortured over a long period of time. She desperately wants to die, but they keep her just barely alive and conscious even after she's been so horribly mutilated throughout every inch of her body that long-term survival would be impossible. It's revealed in the end that her abductors are part of a cult that believes that people can see God just before they die if they've suffered severely enough, so they did it to see the spark of the divine in her eyes.
I found the movie very disturbing but well-done and insightful in a way. I think it takes a common mentality of misery-worship to its absolute extreme. I feel you could draw a comparison between that mentality and the way some people talk about people who carry on living in insurmountable pain with terminal illnesses even if they don't really want to.
