This Woman Is Not a Car

1983
23m

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A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol.... Read allA depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic... Read allA depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.

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6.7/10

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8bvnnnnnn

Surrealist Comedy/Commentary with tinges of Horror

Saw this at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney yesterday, definitely had my attention, there's obviously some commentary going on here about women's role in a soccer mom/pack mule capacity, some of it ends up bordering on surrealist terror, which was slick and unnerving, there's a scene at a beach with a picnic that actually gave me chills, keyword: the tide. Felt like they were filming a dream.

There's also some pent-up sexual frustration going on in a gas station scene with some ultra-suggestive imagery that starts of camp and funny but goes awry. Good stuff, stuck in my head long after, dug the way it was filmed and presented. Yeh, that's about it.

8Brutus-11

good Australian short

The unexpected twists of meaning meant that this film can be said to be humourous, although the humour is pretty black. The feminist reading of it is obvious, but it is a short with broad appeal to non-femo-theorists alike.