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The film is an exploration into the mind of a young woman marked as a schizophrenic after suffering a mental breakdown only to find that the cause is not due to her insanity but rather a distorted sexual guilt constructed by the prohibitive community in which she lives. (British Film Institute (BFI))
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A film's influence on the delirious soul of a disturbed character, a representative of women as a gender. The film is a raw depiction of the situation of the female psyche after she resigns from the cultural role that society imposes on her. More precisely, after her own identity, specifically her female identity, disintegrates both externally and internally, when she is no longer capable of internally identifying with all (or at least the prevailing majority, as is usually the case in reality) components of femininity that her personality was supposed to adopt. A succession of hallucinatory sequences and symbolic scenes staging the other hiding places of the asylum allegorically accompany us with this disintegration, from the protagonist’s youth to her present. We can speculate: if the protagonist's diagnosis is indeed schizophrenia, it can be said that her problem lies precisely in the fact that she was unable to incorporate into her own identity both herself - her unique self - and the imperatives of proper femininity. She is therefore condemned to the fragmentation of herself. However, this avant-garde film is not straightforward feminist agitation (it is quite experimental, so it cannot be straightforward...). The creators' political and ideological anchoring, in my opinion, is shown in a scene towards the end of the film, where we witness some kind of outdoor celebration, from which the adoration of concepts of anti-society or free communities detached from the oppressive repressive society out there can be clearly felt. Furthermore, as is shown to us, even sex is focused on satisfying your partner...
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