Okay, hear me out. I think it's a metaphor.

In many ways this is a stock-standard Patriarchy Sucks™ film about a timid young woman trapped in in an oppressive relationship, but I love the elegant way it uses a unique body-horror angle – an unusual type of self-harm in the form of swallowing objects – to explore issues of women’s bodily autonomy. Everything comes together beautifully in the ending, which is both perfectly fitting and thrillingly unexpected from an otherwise glossy American independent film.

I wish I could be more eloquent about a film that really spoke to me. Again, it’s not an unusual film in many ways, but personally I found it very special.

Hoop-tober
(hopefully), #17:

Sharp Objects,
or: the Symbolics
of Sword-Swallowing.

GULP!

haley bennet gives the performance of her career as a deeply troubled housewife whose perfect life threatens to consumer her whole. she's confronted in a sink or swallow situation, and left to her own devilish devices, she chooses the latter. oddly drawn to objects around her vast yet void house, she sees no other option but to ingest them.

this hyperbolic and hypnotic story is full of stellar performances, stunning cinematography and a sore-throat inducing score. can deftly say i've never seen someone vacuum quite like that. still digesting that ending though.... alas, favorite of the festival!

two best things;
-haley's character (a modern day betty draper / more affluent jane chapman)
-when she was snacking on that dirt! like go off raw vegan queen!

she sure did swallow!!!!!!!

Swallow, ou da tradução “errada”, Devorar, é daqueles roteiros que começa com uma ideia tão inusitada que você vibra quando acontece, porque é um respiro de ar fresco. Mas além disso ele trata de temas repetidos de uma nova forma, não expandindo, mas apenas mudando nosso ângulo de visão.
Sua história é a de Hunter (Haley Bennett), uma mulher que, conforme a introdução avança, somos apresentados à sua vida perfeita, prestes a se casar com um bom partido, filho do dono de uma importante empresa, morando na casa perfeita, com uma piscina linda de frente para uma vista panorâmica. - www.caloni.com.br/devorar/

Swallow could improve greatly if it took more medical than coincidental interest in its character’s very strange fixation with self harm through ingesting dangerous objects. It opts for mild interest. She eats a battery and it energizes her to clean the room. The men in the picture are cartoons and that serves its purpose: to show the real and dangerous demands men make of women’s bodies, how they feel implied ownership of them, just by proximity. But it doesn’t coalesce into a more interesting picture with anything else to say. Is very nicely shot, and our actress is a dead ringer for Jennifer Lawrence, especially close to her Mother! performance.

2020 - January #1

I saw this eating a gigantic pop corn. Loved it!

This husband wishes his wife would spit

I think the fuck not!

I went into this thinking I was going to see some good ol' hysteria-sploitation - or at the very least a 'thriller', as the trailer and all of the marketing has alluded to. But Swallow is neither of those things. It's a straight-up, straight-forward drama. Think Lifetime movie meets TLC's My Strange Addiction.

Haley Bennett really turns in a solid performance but the rest of the thing left me wanting. The characters felt like walking cliches; the scenarios felt unbelievable.

Well shot and an interesting concept. Just coulda used a little something.

a unique and sometimes unsettling (eating sharp objects ahhhh) portrait of a woman seizing control of her life. it walks such a tonal tight rope but wholly succeeds. also it’s shot SO well.

unsettlingly satisfying

A heads up: this is really fantastic