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- - - - trying to workout why: big question at the end of narrative trying to absolve her guilt and workout why
        
        the horror will forever live with us: confront the unsettling nature of evil and complexity of human behaviour
    - - some have suggested Eva is an unreliable narrator as we don't get Franklins pov
        
        even when he spoke the camera focused on Eva
        
        perhaps it doesn't matter as it is not a film about the truth it is about experience and character
        
        unreluable memory
        
        ambiguity and ambivalence unclear finale left with grey area that does not offer clarity or truth just human experience as we would all be unreliable narrator like Eva
- - - - the abject= grotesque, repulsive something we want to expel e.g. bodily waste and excretions
      - B. Creed developed Kristeva 's theory ti suggest ways in which maternal body as represented in horror films embodies abjection
        
        maternal body is linked to natural world of birth, decay and death. menstruating, lactating etc.
        
        sets her apart from the patriarchal world in the attempt to remain "Clean and proper"
        
        For Creed, many classic horror and science fiction films including Rosemary's baby play on the idea of monstrous abject maternal function
        
        the pregnant woman, or potential pregnant woman as represented through menstruation provides the horror of the film through the very abjection of their female body
    - - does not socialise with other pregnant women
        
        costume: covered up unlike other women who are confident
        
        effective acting by Swinton who is tight and uncomfortable
        
        close up of belly: dehumanising, cutting off head
        
        aligns us with Eva's perspective
        
        framing and composition of corridor: trapped surrounded by pink ballerinas while she is wearing a neutral beige colour: entrapment, no colour
      - fingernail scene: the abject: death and decay
        
        link it to kid, he is grotesque because he came out from her body
        
        sound bridge from prisoner screaming to her screaming compares giving birth to being in prison
        
        distorted image of reflection: no longer a person, looks like a monster in the image, the monstrous feminine
        
        "Eva stop resisting" don't want him to come out, poker face when Franklin was holding Kevin
    - - "mommy was happy before little Kevin came along... now mommy wakes up every morning and wishes she was in France"
      - throwing kid at the corner
      - her and Kevin in jail: not talking to each other and refusing eye contact: bad relationship
    - - she did try to get him checked up but doctor says nothing is wrong with him
      - the younger sister proves that Kevin was a bad egg not Evas fault which challenges the dominant stereotype that bad kids result from poor mothers
      - e.g. scene when mother and son dip their heads under water makes it look like its more nature