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- And while its “healthy woman gets sick and fights back” structure has a shrewd and superficial resemblance to numerous movies of the week, “Safe” finally encourages you to view all the stages of Carol’s story as toxic in different ways, and even to think that perhaps her time of greatest illness is the closest she comes to a kind of life.
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Jun 30, 1995 · And while its “healthy woman gets sick and fights back” structure has a shrewd and superficial resemblance to numerous movies of the week, “Safe” finally encourages you to view all the...
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Haynes takes some of his cues from speculation about that illness, and from the people who moved to communes to get away from the rest of us, as Carol herself ultimately does.
Safe is a 1995 American psychological horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore. Set in 1987, it follows a suburban housewife in Los Angeles whose monotonous life is abruptly changed when she becomes sick with a mysterious illness which she believes is caused by the environment around her.
Apr 11, 2020 · Todd Haynes’s second feature film, starring Julianne Moore as a woman isolated by a mysterious illness, resonates anew in our sudden quarantine, writes America’s Ryan Di Corpo.
A pampered, useless executive wife, she clearly has massive self-esteem problems at the start of the movie, which are not improved by her illness; but without the miracle cure, the overall plot can be summarised as "feeble minded woman gets ill".
Jul 28, 1995 · Eventually the movie, if not her husband, concludes that the environment is making her sick. She’s being attacked by plastics, ozone, chemicals, high-energy wires, pollution, additives, preservatives, hamburger gases – the whole laundry list.
Jun 4, 2020 · For many people who live with chronic illness, we often need to take breaks and destress when we are managing flare-ups of our condition. And there’s nothing like a good movie to help take your mind off things, especially when staying in bed or on the couch are your best option.
