I just watched the new Spanish Netflix movie Abzurdah, with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 5.4/10. It came with the raunchy title cover and had quite the eye-catching description, being that a disenchanted and obsessive girl falls in love with a man older than her by 10 years (while still being a minor herself) and eventually begins to fall obsessively for him, till he deserts her which drives her even further nuts till she attains an anorexic / bulimic state.
The movie has a good starting plot to start things off with, however I really do think that it needed more tracks and music in between instead of going for that slow deep kinda vibe. Although I do notice it to be a growing trend amongst Mexican filmmakers to avoid pitching in lots of tracks AS well as dialogue, showing more of sounds and focusing on the chronological unfolding of the movie.
I do think that this movie could've make done without excessive promiscous scenes as I found them unnecessary and pointless to the story's plot, unless the movie was trying to paint patriarchy at its finest, as recorded in one scene where Cielo discloses to her diary that it was many days that passed in the similar fashion, with him just laying atop fully dressed and her naked, which goes ahead to imply that she could be letting him have his way with her while she just submitted to him.
It however does address a rather serious topic of eating disorders and their connectivity to trauma and panic disorders as an outlet. When we think about eating disorder patients as a whole, we often think that the patients had some kind of a body dysmorphic issue or that they were getting pressurized by the beauty industry as a whole, constantly telling women that they need to look a certain way in order to be perceived attractive. However, anorexia is not at all at par with the society's beauty's standards, it is a mental health condition that stems from the person's inner self and circumstances. The proof of this lies in a scene where Alejo tells Cielo that he can't lay with her because her breasts are too small and that she's too thin, and we all know that the society consistently tells women that bigger bossoms are what's considered nationally attractive. Cielo doesn't develop this disorder because of wanting to look more attractive but rather because she finds it as a distraction from thinking about Alejo obsessively.
Her opening a forum and telling her supporters that anorexia is a way of life and that everyone that suffers it is a princess, is an indication enough that it's really hard to convince an anorexic person that they're beautiful just the way they are as they all just tend to shut the outer world off completely and focus on a delusion of 'not being skinny enough'.
I thought that the movie had a great plot, but character development was essential to it, especially on Alejo's part as they portrayed him to just be a vessel to Cielo's obsession, as a character alone he was incredibly dull and bland. I also really liked how the strictness level of the parents was supposedly high unlike other netflix movies, and this consequentially shows us that no matter how strict parents are, if the child wants wreak havoc to themselves, nobody can stop them but them.
All in all, I give this movie a solid 6/10.
mucho gustos, and adios~
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