Sensitisation of society is on the upcreep. Frustration, disillusionment, nihilism, betrayal and revenge blur any over-riding theme, which most likely is the new preoccupation of the age: insecurity. With so many issues at play though, the meaning is muddled. Sounds of mastication are used frequently - repulsive, but it lends a surreal, intimate effect. His cousin's family has its own emotional issues, a neurotic, artistic mother and son, the latter on the booze while practising Berg's piano sonata (providing a sophisticated tone) for an audition his mother a bored housewife of impulsive passion. The boy is dealing with his father's recent suicide and an evident sense of abandonment resulting in various behavioural phenomena that sociologists will have terms for. It has a dusky, brooding quality - feeling almost like a mild version of Funny Games or Visitor Q. This simple substrate economically combines a surprising number of subtle issues: grief, boredom, alcoholism, stress, lust, and homosexuality, amounting to quite a timebomb in a deceptively domestic situation. An emotionally disturbed teenager turns up at the home of some repressed relatives.
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