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= Possibly in Michigan = |
= Possibly in Michigan = |
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| − | 1983, 11:40 min, color, sound |
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| + | ''Possibly in Michigan'' is an operatic fairy tale of cannibalism, desire and dread in Middle America, a densely collaged narrative in which the Beauty meets the Beast in the surreal landscape of shopping-mall suburbia. Two women with a penchant for "violence and perfume" take revenge on their animal-masked male persecutor. In this contemporary rendering of gothic enchantment, the victim becomes the aggressor and the familiar becomes the fantastic. ''Possibly in Michigan'' is a classic tale of unholy meme horror, retold as a memified fantasy of the other.</center> |
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| − | ''Possibly in Michigan'' is an operatic fairy tale of cannibalism, |
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| − | <nowiki> </nowiki>desire and dread in Middle America, a densely collaged narrative in |
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| − | which Beauty meets the Beast in the surreal landscape of shopping-mall |
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| − | suburbia. Two women with a penchant for "violence and perfume" take |
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| − | revenge on their animal-masked male persecutor. In this contemporary |
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| − | rendering of gothic enchantment, victim becomes aggressor and the |
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| − | familiar becomes the fantastic. Condit reworks popular narrative |
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| − | conventions using black humor, sing-song dialogue, and ironically |
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| − | gruesome images. Constructing a comically grim fairy tale of dreamlike |
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| − | pursuit and sexual violence, she inverts traditional Freudian metaphors |
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| − | to impart a subversive voice to her transgressive heroines: "I bite at |
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| − | the hand that feeds me." ''Possibly in Michigan'' is a classic tale of psychosexual horror, retold as an irreverent fantasy of the other. |
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Latest revision as of 21:59, 30 August 2017
Possibly in Michigan
Directed by Cecelia Condit
Possibly in Michigan is an operatic fairy tale of cannibalism, desire and dread in Middle America, a densely collaged narrative in which the Beauty meets the Beast in the surreal landscape of shopping-mall suburbia. Two women with a penchant for "violence and perfume" take revenge on their animal-masked male persecutor. In this contemporary rendering of gothic enchantment, the victim becomes the aggressor and the familiar becomes the fantastic. Possibly in Michigan is a classic tale of unholy meme horror, retold as a memified fantasy of the other.