Understanding what is real, and what is fake, in this movie is nigh on impossible. So yeah, normal games girls would play, until Petula and Tilda begin taking PCP, making everything pink and purple, as if the movie was just turned inside out.
The doctor is invited to dinner, wherein they are fed crazy, elaborately designed concoctions that are obviously horrible to eat. The doctor checks in on the daughter, checks her reflexes…and seeing none, hammers her knee with a meat cleaver. But the game seems to be just like any other that a group of girls might play. What the rules mean, besides the obvious? I had no idea. And in that game, Daphne is the mother, Petula is the doctor, and Tilda is the daughter. And so they do.Īnd, as they play, we learn that apparently, the game is one they have been playing since they were children. But, in order to do so, they both know that they are going to have to play Daphne’s truly strange games if they hope to get anywhere close to the vault. Oh, and possibly steal from her vault, if they can find it. Petula (Imogen Waterhouse, from Nocturnal Animals) and Tilda (Sarah Hay of Black Swan) are on the run when they get the idea to pay their old friend, Daphne, a visit at her family’s enormous estate. So, Peirone’s labyrinthine cinematic mindjob begins with two friends running from the police after a drug bust hits their apartment.
Where to begin? Haven’t been this flat-footed since that time I started that crazy review of Nicolas Cage’s Mandy, or maybe Jake Gyllenhaal’s Enemy.