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Alison (Alice Ansara) might be autistic - but she also might just be a
tad slow and totally influenced by her mother's (Ann Ellison) warped views
and religious beliefs she successfully forces upon the girl while failing
to show her love. Plus, Alison's home is like a war zone, with her mum and
dad (Roger Adam Smith) constantly fighting, and violently so, until dad
one day shoots himself. After this, Alison's sister Sophie (Sara Cooper)
moves out because she can't take it any longer, giving mum more power than
ever over Alison - until mum dies from a heart attack. Somehow,
construction worker Keith (John Chatwin) has taken a fancy to Alison, and
even though she's hardly talkative and terribly afraid of intimacy let
alone sex, they start dating, become engaged, and eventually marry. But
even in their wedding night, Alison can't bring herself to have sex with
Keith, nor in the weeks that follow - until frustrated Keith turns violent
towards her, and she runs away, runs away to the next town where her
sister Sophie now lives. Thing is though, Sophie is Keith's girlfriend on
the side (without Sophie knowing he's married to Alison of course, or
Keith knowing she's Alison's sister), and when Alison finds that out, she
runs away again, gets her dad's gun, and shoots herself dead - upwards
through her vagina. An interesting experiment: A story (mostly)
shown from the perspective of an autistic woman, where actual events are
mixed with the woman's imagination, dialogue is frequently removed from
dialogue scenes, and the images are sometimes as distorted as her views of
the world. But while the experiment is interesting, it's also a failed
one: The images from Alison's imagination seem to be made up exclusively
from zombie cinema clichés for no apparent reason, every now and again,
someone seems to feel the urge to stop and explain something (which
derives the film of most of its other-worldly effect), the story the film
does tell is as feeble as it is clichéd, and on top of that, Rosebery
7470 does feature more than a fleeting resemblance to Brian de Palma's
Carrie, without ever reaching that movie's intensity.
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