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Alt: it took me some time time to digest it bc it's a very unconventional film (in a good way) and it has MANY layers that starts to click at the final act, but while you're seeing it you can't help but feel a little lost LMAO
it's a bit hard to explain without losing my mind, but it portrays perfectly the voyeurism of slasher films and sex scenes in movies. sex and death are two of the most primal, universal concepts and they are impossible to divorce —one cannot exist without the other— but we're not supposed to talk about that. Jane Schoenbrun dares to do so, explicitly putting these words in the title when it could've simply been called Camp Miasma. instead, and even added the word "teenage".
there's also a particular scene with Hanna's character where she comments about how watching the first film of Camp Miasma when she was 8 changed completely her mind (literally). sex and death are also intertwined with the scopophilia and voyeurism of cinema, a medium that helps us attempt to understand them, even though we never will. we do not choose the movies we imprint on at impressionable ages. they choose us. i didn't choose to have my gay awakening watching Kristen Stewart as Snow White. I didn't choose to be sticked to life with this star wars lesbian ship i once found in tik tok, and yet here we are. these are things that can forever rearrange your psyche.
the movie is talking about the relationship between the individual and the slasher film and between culture and film. especially when the meta elements are introduced in relation to the film’s slasher villain. which end of the lens is real? do we (as the culture) inform the film, or is the film as an entity at the control panel, leading the way and informing the culture and handholding us along the way? how close in bed do we lay with things like the slasher film and the eroticized versions of death and pain and victimhood it presents to us? so much to think about...
