Breeder (2020)

A doctor who conducts illegal experiments on women in an underground lab kidnaps her partner’s wife, making her one of them.

The first two things that stand out are the photography and editing. It is very well shot and paced and very scientifically provocative. And then the torture comes.

I started researching and analysing torture after the one film that truly affected me like no other, Martyrs (2008). The reason behind torture, or the lack thereof, offers a perspective on what you are watching. It provides an explanation or gives none as to why people are suffering the way they do. In Martyrs, you only get to find out in the end, and it’s just unthinkable. In Hellraiser (1987), Pinhead and the rest of the crew are sadistic, hellish creatures and live off the victims’ excruciating pain. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Leatherface and his family are a bunch of psychopathic killers. The problem presented here is that two innovative yet despicable scientists are behind everything that’s happening, and a couple of mindless humanoids that the film has the audacity to call “animals” commit further atrocities.

Personally, the reason here leaves me indifferent. What made me feel uncomfortable was its statement or the way I perceived it anyway: She was looking for pain, and that’s what she got. Maybe I got it wrong, but, ultimately, the film’s message is utterly confusing. Women are oppressed mostly by men, but some women, too? Men are disgusting beings? Sh*t happens? Together, we are stronger than ever against the system that wants us subdued? Women are stronger together against… who?

Anyway, maybe Breeder has no message to deliver, and I just missed the “entertainment.” Maybe you get a different vibe.

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