1st watched 2/16/2008 - 5 out of 10(Dir-Oxide Pang): 1st half excellent, 2nd half confusing. This disparity in the movie makes for a so-so movie when it could have been great. The movie is about a photographer/artist who is not happy with her work even though she's getting awards. On her way out of her house one day, she sees an accident and decides to take photographs of the incident including a death. After this, she becomes fascinated with the subject. partially because of an incident that occurred when she was young where she was molested by her cousins and her mother didn't believe her; since then she deep down didn't feel worthy of anything to the point of attempting suicide. Her girlfriend is at first confused by her obsessions but as they become more and more bizarre she helps her address her demons in her past including talking to her mother again. She appears cured and then starts receiving anonymous pictures and videos of women being tortured by a masked man. The assumption is that the person sending the info wants her to go back to her old ways. This is where the story goes awry, in my opinion. It now becomes more of a cat and mouse horror story then a morally tale, which the first half of the movie was. The couple tries to determine who's sending the pictures, as the girlfriend is pulled into the trap and tortured and killed. When the movie became about the identity of the masked man and less about the original main character in the movie it becomes confused and loses it's spark. Too bad, because the movie started out portraying a subject not shown much in movies(the effects of abuse) and ended as a typical horror/thriller.
Review of Ab-normal Beauty
