The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

A difficult and nasty film about a trashy woman, Sarah, played by Asia Argento, who takes her young son with her on the road. Her income is from prostitution, and the boy is fully exposed to what is going on, and is made to participate where necessary.

Towards the end of the film, the mother is putting on her make-up and she calls the boy over, and starts to makes him up as a girl, telling him that he ought to have been a girl. The boy goes along with this, and we see him imitating his mother's sexual body language. We now cut to the mother engaging in foreplay with a man, but the man addresses her as if she was the boy; presumably the film-maker's allegory to avoid censorship.

A few seconds later the mother is screaming blue murder at the boy, while he is desperately trying to clean a stain out of a pair of her knickers; I didn't understand exactly what this meant, but whatever it was, I didn't like it.

HF October 2007

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