The Stain

So originally this was going to be some blog post about feminism, but in the fear of coming off as a sexist jackass and having every female in the class come at me, tie me to a table, and castrate me before grabbing a tattoo pen and write derogatory words all over my body and then slice my neck and hang my body on a crucifix in from of the girl's dormitory where everyone can see me as the piece of turd macho-pig that I am, I decided to talk about The Stain instead.

This movie is rather disturbing. Which coincidentally was the point. It's supposed to destroy all cover-zones and let's you see the things that you don't want to see. Now we are all supposed to believe that every family is supposed to be happy and supportive with each other and not a big pile of abuse. Well that isn't the case, unfortunately. I can't speak of everyone, nor can I assume that everyone lived this life, but whenever a story of abuse and (pardon my French) mind-fuckery damage to your psychology like the baby sister in the film, there really is no way to blindly ignore it and address it. However many people unfortunately likes to live life being ignorant.

One of the things I like was the way the animation mixed the hand-draw and traditional animation. It adds to the jarring effect the film is supposed to make the audience feel, and they did some creative things with it too. It reminds me of a music video from the 90s. Throughout I can't help but feel like this song would be something that Pearl Jam would write about (look up the lyrics to Alive and you'll understand). And that makes it work. With the stop-motion being stiff and wonky, it's to show how their lives are, imperfect and broken. With the hand-drawn scenes, it's surreal like the visions of the younger sister and the flashbacks towards the kids showing innocence and wonder, despite reality constantly slapping you in the face over and over and over AND OVER! It's supposed to be awkward and scary to look at. That's the point! The filmmakers are trolling you! And if you fell for it...well...U MAD BRO!