Wound

New Zealand 2010
produced by
Andrew Beattie, Kim Smith (executive), E. Takacs (executive), Andrew Wilson (executive) for ILA Films
directed by David Blyth
starring Kate O'Rourke, Te Kaea Beri, Campbell Cooley, Sandy Lowe, Brendan Gregory, Ian Mune, Maggie Tarver, Chrystal Ash, Matt Easterbrook, Omar Al-Sobky, Andy Sophocleous, Christina Sortesi, Heath Mortlock
written by David Blyth, music by Jed Town

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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On the surface, Susan (Kate O'Rourke) is an ordinary woman, a bit dull perhaps. She works at a dead-end job at a call center, which doesn't exactly excite her, but she gets medication to make it through the day.

Sure she engages in sexual roleplay and bondageplay with a guy who dominates her, but hey, we all have dirty secrets. Sure, she collects her own feces and stores it in her freezer, but we all need hobbies, don't we? Sure, she kills her own dad when he returns home after years of absence, but ... ok, that's no longer normal and dull, but then again, nobody has seen it.

Things spin out of control when Susan's daughter Tanya (Te Kaea Beri) returns home, takes over Susan's life and threatens to kill her. Now that would be only half as troubling if Susan had a daughter Tanya, but Susan only had a stillborn child ...

Tanya makes a habit of extreme violence and murder, but flashbacks in which Susan is seen burning her own mother suggest that Tanya is just a figment of Susan's imagination. Eventually, Susan is captured and committed to an asylum ... but on the way there, her ambulance picks up a hitchhiker - Tanya ...

My synopsis probably doesn't do this movie justice, which is less of a narrative film in the traditional sense and more of a nightmare come to life. Thus its story is not told in any chronological order but jumps back and forward deliberately, changes between reality and Susan's fantasies seemingly at random, and doesn't shy away from going all-out bizarre. Add to this a subtle direction, a decent cast, and a bit of extreme violence, and you've got yourself a pretty weird experience ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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