casualraven said:Oh, there’s actually a thread for this! I totally missed it 😁
I find this movie super interesting—it's a total staple of that whole "New French Extremity" movement, and honestly, even darker than most of their other stuff (if you look at how it ends). There's this one weird element in the flick that I don't think they ever bother explaining, or maybe it doesn't even need to be explained (you know, that zombie part?), but hey, whatever... It was brutal, uncomfortable, and seriously caught me off guard 🙂
Are you talking about that prisoner who basically rose from the dead? I felt the same way—felt like it didn't serve much of a purpose.
For me, the absolute most shocking part was when the lead actress slashed her own throat after burning that woman's face... seeing all that blood everywhere was wild. Talk about pure desperation! But man, she realized what she'd done almost instantly and just started taping herself up with duct tape 😳 Usually, I'm pretty quiet when I'm watching movies, but this time I actually had to yell at the screen: "You idiot, what are you doing?! You're gonna die, why would you do that?!" Seriously, such a heavy psychological moment in the film.