Nightbitch review – Amy Adams carries frustrating mum-on-the-edge comedy drama | Drama films
Nightbitch review – Amy Adams carries frustrating mum-on-the-edge comedy drama | Drama films
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Bu içerikte, Amy Adams’ın Marielle Heller’ın Nightbitch filminde oynadığı, isimsiz bir anne karakterinin annelik deneyimini tanımladığı vahşi ve hayvansal bir deneyim olduğu belirtiliyor. Film, Rachel Yoder’ın aynı adlı 2021 romanından uyarlanmış olup, zekice merak ile şok taktikleri ve vücut korkusu arasında bir denge kurmaya çalışmaktadır. Ancak film, annelik allegorisini tanımladıktan sonra ne yapacağını bilememektedir. Heller’ın filmde evcil drama unsuruna daha rahat adapte olduğu görülürken, absürt fantastik yöne sapma konusunda zorlandığı belirtilmektedir. Nightbitch, ya daha derinlemesine bir sorgulama ya da tam anlamıyla vahşi bir çılgınlık olarak daha iyi çalışabilirdi ancak bu rahatsız edici orta nokta bir fırsatı kaçırılmış gibi hissettiriyor.
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Motherhood, according to Amy Adams’s frazzled, unnamed mum to a toddler in Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, “is perhaps the most violent experience a human can have aside from death itself”. It’s feral, primal and animalistic, an experience that strips away our fastidious qualms and sees us nose-deep in nappies and newly expert in a whole realm of physical indignities. Motherhood, to put it simply, is a beast of a thing – literally, in the case of this odd blend of banal reality and fantasy.
This Amy Adams-starring adaptation of the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder attempts, not always successfully, to strike a balance between the book’s intellectual curiosity and genre cinema’s inclination to veer towards shock tactics and body horror. There are parallels with films such as Tully and The Babadook in the blurred realities and sense of being gaslit by your own urges and needs, but having identified its allegory for motherhood – Adams’s character finds herself turning into a dog – the picture doesn’t know what to do with it. Nightbitch repeats the same points over and over, like a sleep-deprived new mum attempting to wrestle with a shopping list. Parts of the film work well, the dance of avoidance around marital tensions and festering grievances playing out in Adams’s expressive face. Yet this is hardly revelatory stuff.
Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) seems far more at ease with the domestic drama element than she is with the swerve into absurdist fantasy. Nightbitch would have worked better if it had been pushed further in either direction – as an intimate interrogation, or as a full-bore bestial freakout. This uneasy middle ground feels like a missed opportunity.
Nightbitch review – Amy Adams carries frustrating mum-on-the-edge comedy drama | Drama films
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