A strange disease: I often can't restrain myself from swallowing foreign objects and get pleasure from it. Medically, this is called "heterophagy". . . I mistakenly thought it was a plasma film like "Raw Eat". After all, a woman who can swallow anything in her mouth, especially something as sharp as acupuncture and steel nails. But in fact, the focus of the director is not to show the process of swallowing at all, but to explore the reasons for her swallowing. This film is probably a psychology and pathology textbook, about pregnancy and depression in life, contempt for physical shame, and the breakdown of dealing with the perfect person and the perfect family. It can be regarded as a story of awakening allegory: the bright sunny mansion, the clean and dazzling setting belongs to the bright contrast with the endless vomiting and swallowing in the film. When people overestimate their needs for material life and underestimate their needs for affirmation of their own value, mismatches in self-cognition will occur. The overall pace of the film is very slow, and what it really wants to express underneath it is not what ordinary people can understand, so the impression is very boring. Only the long shot of the bathroom at the end is so interesting. The unclear meaning ends in some way. There is a kind of impulse that people don't understand and want to continue to think and explore. The result is no pain or itching. Clichés reframed are still clichés...
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