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THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES
Taking as its focus a Columbine style massacre in a school (a la Elephant) the one feeling I wasn't expecting to experience while watching The Life Before Her Eyes was fury - and that wasn't even provoked by the subject matter, but by the way it is handled. You'll have to go a long way this year to find another film as misogynistic as this, in which all women are either one of two things: virginal Madonnas, or bad mums, bad daughters and sluts (the word used in the film).
Evan Rachel Wood is bad girl Diana, always getting into trouble and on the brink of being thrown out of school. Unexpectedly, she forms a close friendship with goody two-shoes religious Maureen (Eva Amurri) and the two become inseparable, until tragedy strikes when a pupil turns his guns on his classmates. Years later, a now reformed Diana (Uma Thurman) is teaching art in college, but still traumatised by the events at the school and as the anniversary of the massacre nears, finds herself in an increasingly fragile mental state. However, there's a twist to this tale that may or may not come as a surprise depending on whether you've been watching out for the increasingly heavy-handed clues. On one side you have a pure, clean vision of female loveliness in the form of Maureen, on the other the wild, bad, baby abortionist Diana, so who deserves to die?
This blinkered vision of women (either as sinner or saint) belongs back in the dark ages. Meanwhile, it's not just the film's screenplay that is heavy-handed but also its imagery with Diana's house existing in an idealised, flower-laden garden, while dust motes dance in shafts of light as she makes her way to the school.
Dee Pilgrim
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