The Woman (2011)

Keywords: Absurdism, Anthropophagus, Based on Novel, Blood, Brutality, Cannibal, Cannibalism, Captive, Cruelty, Death, Exploitation, Female Full Frontal Nudity, Female Nudity, Female Victim, Full Frontal Female Nudity, Gore, Incest, Lawyer, Masturbation, Misogyny, Mutilation, Nudity, Perversity, Psychopath, Pubic Hair, Rape, Rape And Revenge, Sadism, Sadistic Cruelty, Sexual Assault, Sexual Cruelty, Sexual Sadism, Sexual Torture, Sexual Violence, Suffering, Torture, Violence

The Woman is a film that – again – divides a family into two pieces; and here it is the most obvious one: men and women. Christopher turns out to be a very dominant and sadistic man, but his male offspring is even more sadistic. The film wants to show the outcome of a really bad influence, e.g. in one scene, Christopher has sex with the enchained woman while his son is watching him through a small hole in the door. One day later we follow him going to the basement with pliers to torture the woman’s nipples. Only his ill sister can stop him.

She is the good part in the film, she always wants to help the woman and tries to stop the rest of the family harassing the unknown. The relationship is another example of the influence of the parents to their child, although we find a kind of negative climax. The mother only tries to break out of the family – near the end she is strong and tells her husband. In the following scene he knocks her out. Before she follows the instructions of Christopher – that’s why she should be seen as a bad person at all. The audience has the possibility to judge the characters, but in the end it is the woman who judges. And she decides to kill everybody except of the two daughters. You see, this is the instincts I was talking about in the beginning; the woman “sees” who is good and who is not.