A Woman's Torment

A Woman's Torment is a very colourful and nourishing probe into the soul of a troubled woman, ignored by her surroundings and hidden from a hypocritical society. We don't know the causes of her mental disorder, but they are brought to mind in Freudian style during the entire first third of the movie (but then the storyline doesn't return to them at all). The plot premise is simple - the mentally troubled main heroine Karen (Tara Chung) is "cleaned up" by her relatives in an empty house on the beach of a sparsely populated island, where instead of the planned rest, she suffers greater and greater psychosis, culminating in her killing spree. And, well, there are a few sex scenes here and there. In addition to the very shallow psychology of the characters, the movie very ambitiously embarks on the difficult topics of feminism, motherhood, and career dilemmas. In other words, it’s a complex slasher movie and also a completely transcendental experience, which doesn’t suffer from the fact that the main actress ran away with a lighting guy during the filming and had to be replaced in some scenes by the director. [The Shockproof Film Festival 2020] (10/03/2020)