The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 14 May . Even tho I got no message even after the movie ended, but it was entertaining. I dont know why rape culture is brought up in a film thats so transgressive. By Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. You can breathe now; the disturbance ends her. I probably am alone in this, but like I said I really enjoyed it. Julia takes an overly done genre trope (cannibalism) and completely makes it fresh, organic, and ready to serve to the masses in a very beautiful, elegant, and most disturbing way in which a young woman is on a coming- of-age quest in her life and discovers her sexual side as well as a new appetite. Paints, biting and picking out pubes. Raw marks a stunning feature film debut for director Justine Ducournau in a cannibal coming-of-age tale that is gruesome, gorgeous and seductive. Unfortunately, it feels like the least interesting version of this story and premise . The younger girl is subjected to some vicious hazing by older students. I agree with your review very much. The film runs for almost 100 minutes and basically depictes a young woman being sucked deeper and deeper into the abyss of carnal desires and with that I only mean sex to a lesser extent, but it's really all about the meat and she cannot get enough of it, even in pretty violent and disturbing manners. Others avoided her. Visceral and quite unforgettable, Raw is a very rare beast - an excellent cannibal movie. While on their way, Mills and Doe get into an argument wherein Doe asserts that his doing was, in a sense, holy, purging people or chastising the ones committing either of the seven . She dashes out in front of a car. First, the film may have been created with a specific ending in mind, and that finale may not be entirely clear or satisfying to all viewers. If we talk about the overall script then it is a very unique story but the film is quite disturbing. Having said that, its exciting to see a female filmmaker establishing herself so forcefully in what traditionally has been a male-dominated genre. This article discusses the ending of the Turkish Netflix film Last Summer (2021), so it will contain major spoilers. Justine picks up the finger, tastes the blood, and begins eating it as Alexia collapses. Alexia faints, and Justine picks up the finger, tastes the blood, and starts eating it. The question remains as to why, considering the fact that Raw is just a schlock fest attempt at shock value that grossly (both literally and figuratively) underwhelms. Thank you. The film uses many clever misdirects and carefully ambiguous scene set-ups to conceal this until the end in order to ensure maximum surprise. June 8, 2021. There, now you don't have to watch this disgusting movie I wish I hadn't, but no one can say my review is bad because I didn't watch til the end. Soooo. that's an interesting review for me. It's easy to appreciate this one as a quality film, a guilty pleasure, a film with a most desirable protagonist or something that is just very different compared to everything else in film these days, also everything else in horror film. Bystanders are about to have a very bad day, thanks to this Martian tripod. In the end big sis kills little sis's gay want to be boyfriend which lil sis wakes up with and pulls down the cover to see his thigh has been devoured, she thinks she did it until finding big sis all full on kitchen floor with a bloody face. This, obviously, goes further than Signs because it doesn't just redefine a small element of the filmit completely redefines the audience's relationship with the preceding narrative. If we stop sexualizing everything, then we could arguably make an impact on things like rape culture, etc. The freshmen class is hazed and forced to eat meat. Some people may be missing a wicked French humor at play here. Alexia wakes up to find Justine doing this but later tells their parents that her dog, Quicky, ate it. The intimate four-character piece is premised on the aftermath of a school shooting. Oddly enough, it's also a time travel movie. In no time, Justine is sitting in front of the refrigerator in her dorm room in the middle of the night, tearing into a raw chicken breast to the bewilderment of her flirty, gay roommate and only friend, Adrien (Rabah Nait Oufella). After showing the Eternals' arrival on Earth over . For a film about cannibalism, it's surprisingly subtle and is generally a slow burn that builds tension well. The film revolves around how RAW agents located in Pakistan gathered information on Pakistan's nuclear mission during the 1970s. Even the interesting scene early on when we see it is basically pressed upon the protagonist by her mother is not as significant as it sounds, well at least not until the very end when we find out something intriguing about this perspective. How this film was "so horrific" that people left midway through the film after being so repulsed, they were physically ill. The human condition relies on instinctual fear for survival and utilizes social ostracization as a means to gatekeep the desired from the undesirables. She visits the doctor, who diagnoses her with food poisoning and prescribes rash cream. The scene changes to a restaurant where Justine is eating with her parents. The method was what pushed him into Jigsaw territory, as thanks to a . I must have seen a different movie. RT is also giving mostly positive reviews. Despite this, Justine begins to lust after Adrien, and her craving for human meat intensifies. Its the school where their parents first met and where her older sister Alexia attends. They are brought to a party, where Alexia shows Justine old class photos of students bathed in blood, including one with their parents. And in the end, their father looks to Justine to put an end to their secret family horror when he exposes his abdomen. 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The pair discover that a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences. By mistake, Alexia amputates her own finger. Justine is an intelligent young woman who is about to start training to become a vet; she is attending the school both her parents went to and where her elder sister, Alexia, is already studying. A fight would then ensue and would only end once Frodo destroyed The Ring. Their first taste of meat (in college) awakened their cannibalistic instincts. Justine goes back to her dorm and takes a shower, where she picks a chunk of his lip out of her teeth and eats it. Renowned composer-conductor Lydia Tr has a few weeks until recording a major symphony, one more feather in the illustrious cap of her career, when a series of her actions and their consequences finally catch up to her, throwing her life and her dreams into chaos. Justine (Garance Marillier ) is being sent off to veterinary school where her older sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) attends. His pleading now places Justine as the new daughter with a chance of either fulfilling her mothers new hopes or being her familys savior. Unsatisfied, she eats raw chicken in the morning, and later throws up a long bundle of her own hair she had been chewing on. The movie never leaves Lydia Tr. it is awful. Justines grisly eating habits lead to a switch in heavy meat-eating (cooked and raw) with a ravenous and insatiable hunger that distracts her from school, her growing friendship/relationship with Adrien and fellow classmates, and her overall health and wellness. Though it is a zombie movie, it is not horror movie. The glare and reflections of both the girls faces neatly align to evoke an image of their mother, whos only seen in the film a handful of times. Not trying to shamelessly self-promote, but I actually reviewed this film earlier in the year. The title is a pretty accurate description of how I was feeling by the end. That's why the kids were forced to be vegetarian from conception. And it comes from the mind of another young, brilliant woman, French writer/director Julia Ducournau, making her wildly assured feature debut. Again, thank the French. I finally watched this and loved how enthralled I was by it throughout. What we have here is a particularly grisly, but effective coming of age story, a genre the French have a penchant for. May 26, 20224:44 PM. If they had kept the cannibal stuff in more of a trivialized way, I think it could've been for the better. Tries too hard in an already crowded and decadent genre. There, Justine's father tells her that what happened is neither hers nor Alexia's fault. What are you hungry for? We have all seen the umpteen coming-of-age or sexual awakening story, but when is the last time you saw a becoming-a-cannibal story? 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When he first met their mother, he says, he didnt know why she didnt want to be with him. Warning: ending spoilers for Jordan Peele's Us. Its fleeting moments of realist gore are potent and cringe-inducing, as they are supposed to be, but don't let that stop you from enjoying this fantastic flick. As it goes along, the sisters fight and this leads to a ridiculous encounter between the two as the older girl bikini waxes the younger one in a very private area. She goes to a gas station late at night with Adrien so that no one will see her eating meat. [2][10], During a screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, some viewers received emergency medical services after allegedly fainting from the film's graphic scenes. Director Julia Ducournau brings a sense of humanity to the story. The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, based at Broadcasting House in London, England. I really liked it, but by the end of the film I felt like it tried to cover 2 separate things but never ended up going in a clear, definite direction. Manage Settings There is lots of nudity in the film, but all of it is almost an afterthought. I can infer all day, but what about doing your job as a script writer and filmmaker to answer every question your movie raises? During this time they are forced to party and eat raw meat which didn't sit well with Justine who is a life long vegetarian. In the final moments of the film, the melded image of Alexia and Justine depicts the girls embodying the pressures of maintaining academic success, obscuring their irresistible urge for blood and blurring the lines of their morality. A fight stemming from pent-up rage, guilt, and hunger clashing between sisters shifts into a straight-up awkward feeding session with the girls biting each other and feeding, all under the eyes of their creeped-out classmates. But they manage to get the jump on him . It is, however, a very stressful film to watch from beginning to end, even before the real feasting gets underway. Two sisters are vegetarian students at a veterinarian school which was also attended by their parents. When I'm watching a horror film about the allure of cannibalism, I want to watch a horror film about the allure of cannibalism, and not watch a movie where there's other primarily dramatic aspects swirling around which detract from the horror. One image shows them with their parents. SPOILER: it's not. I will say that I'd read reviews beforehand, some of which saying you should find Raw extremely shocking for its depictions of cannibalism, which I definitely didn't - so maybe part of why I view this with such a downer is because of that, I don't know. Earlier in the film, Alexia, Justine, and their peers confer on animal rights such as the scene where they argue if a monkey sexual assault and human sexual assault should be considered at the same level of violation, accounting for the emotional toll it would take on either human or monkey. And though it has glimmers of style that are reminiscent of thriller mastersthe body horror of David Cronenberg, the gaudy surrealism of David Lynch"Raw" is very much its own artful entity with its own singular voice. The Human Superiority Complex, Five Disturbing Horror Movies to Get You Into the New French Extremity, First 'Bones & All' Image Reveals Timothe Chalamet and Taylor Russell in Luca Guadagninos Cannibal Film. Ducournaus lurid, vivid film is visually striking, full of images that will shock you while others will lull you with a hypnotic beauty. I felt like this wasn't particularly that well explored because of the constant back and forth with the whole cannibalistic angle. Be sure to watch it until the end, however, because everything ties together in a very intuitive and satisfying fashion. We also observe that her elder sister 'Alexia' also eats raw meat. First of all I'd agree the film was well shot. The figures suddenly attack and terrorize the Wilsons, revealing themselves to be their . So li I am a huge fan of horror and thrillers and I've seen it all but this is the first film that literally repulsed me and truly made me ill. One reviewer said that for a movie about cannibalism it was subtle. Personally I'm a chill liberal guy, and I'm all for all stripes of women's rights. Also, when the main character first eats flesh and her sister rouses to see it, there is such a feeling of being caught masturbating, and I'm sure anyone with siblings would relate. This is the ritual that they apply to welcome new students. Club gave the film an A grade, stating, "The strongest of the female-led films I've screened so far at the festival is Raw, Julia Ducournau's beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly erotic meditation on primal hungers of all kinds. During one of the only sex scenes, there's nothing explicitly shown. There's probably a million other films that do it better, and just seeing a woman being a bit more empowered isn't enough for me to feel it was a good critique on the opposing culture. I can't wait for you all to feast your eyes and stomachs on first time French director Julia Ducournau's masterpiece in cinema, simply titled 'RAW'. However this was the most boring, unsexy, uncool, stupid movie I've seen in a while. The new class is covered in blood when it arrives the following morning. As much as I admire the clear objective of the filmmakers and how well they achieved it, it is not the movie for me. He gestures toward a scar on his lip. Even more bewildering is the fact that this stupidity was written by a women. The girls inherited their need to feast on human flesh from their mother. He lives an ordinary single life between a flat and a job. Adrien shows her a video where Justine is crawling on all fours, attempting to take a bite out of the arm of a corpse as Alexia eggs her on, to boos and cheers from a crowd of watching party guests. I also really hope no dogs were killed or tortured for the dissection scenes! She gets a nasty rash and later Jeffrey Dahmer syndrome which makes dating tough. Why would someone do that? Alexia attempts to remove the wax with a pair of sharp scissors, but Justine kicks her away. As long as it's not gross or sexual just for shock factor. She is compelled to kiss someone. Take my advice and avoid Raw like the plague. * * *. But that turns out to be a . We need more of it in media, more praise for bad ass women. Her vegetarism and animal rights view is looked down upon. And shes only 33 years old. Alexia is challenged by Justine, who fights her. Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023, Revisiting Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines. 8/10. it's really weird and annoying and terrible. I would have much preferred a solid cannibalism movie. Soon she feels attracted to eat not only meat but also human flesh and learns a family secret. RELATED: Five Disturbing Horror Movies to Get You Into the New French Extremity. From the rumors of overwhelmed audience members passing out, to the promotional barf bags being doled out at the screening, Raw can't help but prime you for a big bloody letdown. Raw is a seductive and intriguing movie that has enough surface-level pleasures for devoted horror hounds. Another review said that people got sick and left halfway through, I assume during the eating of the finger but if they had watched til the end they would have found it to be an excellent although grisly coming of age story. The plot revolves around a girl character 'Justine' who used to be a pure vegetarian just like her family. Madeweke explained the importance of Cheryl's parting shot to Digital Spy, but said the prologue and mirror callback wasn't in the original script: Ad. She is attempting to bite into a corpses arm as Alexia encourages her, drawing boos and cheers from the audience of party guests who are onlookers. Alexia starts eating one of the passengers so that her sister would "learn"; instead, Justine is dismayed. [16], Catherine Bray of Variety wrote, "Suspiria meets Ginger Snaps in a muscular yet elegant campus cannibal horror from bright new talent Julia Ducournau. I scare easily, so truth be told, I was shaking in my boots before the promotions guy started butchering the stars' names and joking that we'd all enjoy a steak dinner afterwards. Not like generic horror movies. It was a 5.5/10 for me, because it's so derivative - which again might be because its artistry was also overhyped before I watched it in the cinema. Read at your own risk. If she had gone heavier on any one of a few elements(photography/art direction, traditional horror devices, emotion), I might've enjoyed it enough to recommend it. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison. When they had their first kiss, according to her father, he finally understood. I think the most damning problem is, I found it massively disappointing as a cannibalism film. In order to save her best friend, Tracy, and all the party guests, Lydia . Was the purpose just to subject me to images that would damage my psyche? The planet has not yet been attacked by the monster. While there, Justine learns a . Her father says he finally realized when they kissed the first time, indicating a scar on his lip. The three women are stranded on the grounds, with no vehicle to escape. Alexia drives Justine to a deserted road the following morning. Debut writer-director Julia Ducournau knows exactly what she wanted to do and did it, and the resultant film is a different breed of horror with no cheap jump scares and with the camera never flinching from all body and animal horror. Throughout the film, Justice wanders and observes everyone around her with curiosity and a fascination for exploration. To end the film with the shot of the dad with all the scars? 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