Savage Grace

Very interesting but disturbing story. Although the movie introduction may show that it is adapted from a real story that just happened 30 years ago, but it does not mention the incest scene when the mother and the son have sex, and the son kills the mother at the end of the movie.

It has been days since I watched this movie. I cannot remember too much detail, but some scenes are quite impressive.

This first scene is the sex between the husband and the wife. Both are dressed. The wife looks into mirror, and the camera shoots the mirror and her reflection, twice. The gives me a helpless feeling of how her soul is constrained.

The second scene is when she was gracefully entertaining the guests, and wants her son to read a paragraph to the guests. The son was reluctant to obey, and the guests were trying to talk her out of it. She sends the son back to the son, but overhears the comments about her ass. She comes out pissed and screams and shoves the guest out of her house.

The third scene is when she and the escort were lying on the bed when the son comes back. The son gets on the bed and hugs the escort. She wakes up and see this awkward situation, the escort wakes up and see what happens. Then she bursts into laughters, and then they all start to laugh. Julianne Moore is very good in this scene.

The fourth scene is when she has sex with her son. She treats him just like a regular man, but he is totally confused, and actually looks desperate.

The last scene is after the son kills the mother, he is very calm. He calls the police, and calls takeout food to be delivered because he is starving. When the police arrives, he sits on the floor eating and answering the policemen, still calm, with the mother lying beside him.

This is definitely not a movie for the general public, but go for it if you are tired of happy endings and fairy tales.