The Love That’s Really Real: 'American Psycho' as Romantic Comedy But as the days progress, strange things begin to happen around Deborah that are not consistent with any findings about Alzheimer’s. I’m not the butt of anyone’s joke.” We wanted to treat Deborah with dignity because it makes her a nice, round character and it also makes her decline all the more upsetting.
Doctors, lawyers, town hall, everybody.”Deborah also details the actions she takes to fight her deteriorating condition, and she expresses her frustration at the futility of her mind’s inevitable decline:But Deborah’s not just fighting Alzheimer’s; she’s battling a spiritual parasite — and it’s a fucking EVIL one.Larson’s portrayal of Deborah’s possession is complex: she conveys a mixture of confusion and fear and desperation and anger and evil, and she appears pitiful, then horrifying, then pitiful again — sometimes in the same scene.There exists a cultural trope of the ugly old evil women — a trope which thrives on the notion that older women are scary and unnatural, grotesque, lusting for power and filled with an abject evil.And yes, as the evil overtakes Deborah, she does become both ugly and powerful.But Deborah isn’t an evil crone — she’s a good person who is unhealthy of mind through no fault or moral failing of her own. Though Deborah is resistant to the idea, her daughter, Sarah (Anne Ramsay), who cares for her, convinces her the money Mia is offering is necessary to prevent the house from being repossessed. The Taking Of Deborah Logan plays both sides of the horror spectrum, which is how it earns its power: The spectral chills are creepy enough, but the real-world implications are far more unsettling.
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Women-Directed and Women-Centric Feature Films at 2018 Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) Here are mine:I think it’s a great thing to see a gay lady occupy the role of the horror film hero, and I think Sarah is a great gay lady hero. ‘The Taking of Deborah Logan’ Is a Netflix Horror Gem: 7 More Awesome Picks For Halloween Weekend. Politicians With Completely Unrelated PhotosBye, Haters! A person possessed by emptiness. I’m not going to beat around the bush. The film stars Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, and Michelle Ang. Though Deborah’s life is spared, it is unclear whether or not the possession affected her disease, as a serpent also symbolizes death.
'Bob's Burgers': The Uniquely Lovable Tina Belcher What it almost never does, however, is engage with these concepts as they exist for most of the population—that is to say, with the actual process of dying. She had Alzheimer’s so I have a lot of feelings about the disease including genuine terror of ending up like that myself.My instinct is to embrace possession as metaphor for mental deterioration (and vice versa), and to respect this film’s musings on the horror of degenerative diseases and the capacity for strength in a mother and a daughter’s love.________________________________________________________________________________[…] you think I fall in love with every found footage film I see, I offer you my review of Mr. Jones — a film that takes fascinating approaches to its […]
A person with Alzheimer’s, especially in the later stages, requires full-time care. 'Hush': A Resourceful Heroine with Disabilities for the Horror Genre Mia Medina (Ang) has finally found the perfect subject for her PhD thesis film on Alzheimer's Disease.