wisekraft This is a very astute observation of a woman with borderline personality disorder, and the effect it has on those who cross her path. As with many psychiatric disorders, people are dismissed as "bad" based on behaviour which is to them entirely normal. The complete lack of empathy or respect for life is shown as distressingly as it occurs with this disorder. The lead actress is superb in a role which must be taxing, to say the least. The role of Miriam is also played with skill and depth. In light of the recent suicide of Robin Williams, thought to be suffering from bipolar disorder ( as are so many creative beings) to me shows the need to explore and explain mental illness. This does.

christopher-underwood I really liked this film a lot and I'm just struggling a little to work out quite why. On the face of it a British road movie with a fairly deranged Eunice, played by Amanda Plummer and Wendy played by Kathy Jamieson who gets attracted to her, despite herself. And that's it really apart, of course, from all the bloody killing and Eunice's weird and plentiful body piercings. Plummer is brilliant and completely believably, convinces as the needy sort of lost soul who might do anything if riled or if they feel like it. Jamieson is equally good and it is shameful she has made so few films. Here she plays a more gentle and innocent lost soul, trying to 'look after' her new found friend and finds herself getting very involved indeed. Despite the wild, craziness of this, 'Thelma and Louise meets Silence of the Lambs' (as my box references it) as with so much of Winterbottom's work, it remains essentially a very English film. The motorways and traffic, couldn't really be anyone else's, the landscape and skies, similarly and the uniquely awful roadside petrol stations, stores and eateries. This is such a dark film filled with horrible happenings and yet there is a warmth in the stupid relationship and a feeling of belonging. Maybe I should try and compile a list that represents 'England'. Anyway, this has certainly prompted me to see even more of the directors many and varied output. Excellent.

Colin Hosten (Colin0001) I saw this film years ago, when it just was released in the cinemas here in the UK. I was young then and it was almost a painful experience to watch it through to conclusion. I remember it being described once as a horror film. I wouldn't have agreed with that as a genre, but I could see why. I feel that the much later BAISE MOI owes much to the ground that this first tread. I enjoyed it, but through parted fingers at the time. The many scenes that seemed to dwell lovingly on flesh pulled tight till bleeding seemed gruesome in extremis. I think I got it the first time. After that, HELLRAISER was hardly as dread as it hoped to be. With so many films being much the same as the other, I think we need more films like this - if only to give us more choice.

neonexus What prompted me to write this was reading another viewer review that claimed this film was terrible. Now, I am not going to attack that reviewer; everyone is entitled to their own opinion and all that, but I am going to tell you why I disagree with what that person wrote.Eunice and Miriam are the central characters. Known to each other as Eu and Mi, (You and Me). Eunice feels God has forgotten her, so makes has to punish herself or her sins and crimes. Miriam is a sweet, sensitive girl, a complete opposite to Eu. At opposite ends of whatever the scale might have been, Eu and Mi cross the country so Eu can find the only person she has ever loved...It is a shocking tale. It is disturbing, depressing. It is, for me more of a tragedy that Hamlet and Macbeth put together and multiplied a hundred times. Love and Redemption. Love. Love. Love. That's what it's all about. The final scene of any film should be something. I have never cried so hard in a film as I have in this one. Everybody who considers themself a fan of the 'non-Hollywood' style film with heart and guts, then see this incredible film! 10/10