Celia (1989)

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   nbats

   https://youtu.be/CNMReGB8-mo 9 months 2 weeks ago
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   Siskoid

   A dark children's story, Ann Turner's Celia juxtaposes its story about growing up in a small Australian community with a fairy tale, which I think is pretty on point. It is set in the 1950s where little Celia's dark imagination and macabre games are informed by the horrors of childhood, namely things happening in the adult world that have cruel consequences for her - the communist scare, measures against the rabbit plague (tough on a kid who loves rabbits, and on an audience who loves animals), a dad with a wandering eye, and the death of a beloved grandmother. Let's throw in a sadistic rival kid gang in there for good measure. There are a number of harrowing moments in the film, sitting casually among scenes of happy childhood and all the more upsetting for it. A chronicle of childhood trauma. Horror-adjacent at best, but that final sequence really does give you a chill as it asks what trauma can really lead to - perpetual victimhood, or something else? 1 year 5 months ago

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