May (2002): Is May a monster ?

Is May a monster ?

by CinematicExplorer (Tue Dec 5 2006 01:48:58)


Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are so many bad horror movies. A good one is incredibly hard to make. It has to feel a fundamental sympathy for its monster, as movies as different as "Frankenstein," "Carrie" and "The Silence of the Lambs" did. It has to see that they suffer, too. The crimes of too many horror monsters seem to be for their own entertainment, or ours. In the best horror movies, the crimes are inescapable, and the monsters are driven toward them by the merciless urgency of their natures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebert Is May a monster ?
Re: Is May a monster ?

by dharmabum (Tue Dec 5 2006 03:38:30)
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Yes, and rather obviously. The girl ends up murdering four people and sewing them together, not to mention her rather heartbreaking and meaningless murder of a noisy cat (a moment in the film which I'm not quite sure was relevant or justified, outside of shock value). She then scoops out her own eyeball to contribute to the Frankenstenian mess. Let's just say that happened in real life... I'm pretty sure the media and most people would be comfortable labelling her a monster. She gets up to stuff that even widely accepted real life "monsters" like Manson would get queasy thinking of. What is interesting about the last few frames of the movie is the promise of her redemption; through monstrous action, she may no longer be a monster.
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Re: Is May a monster ?

by slabossiere (Mon Jan 22 2007 08:00:10)
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Isn't the cat her first kill? (I've only seen this once, hopefully I'm remembering correctly) I think it comes first in her series of killing, so it is her first step toward truly becoming a monster. Many murderers start out with animal abuse/mutilation first. I thought it was an important scene, it showed the character's development.
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Re: Is May a monster ?

by ChainsawQuartet (Mon Apr 30 2007 08:55:52)
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It depends. If you watch the full movie, then no, she is not a monster. It shows that she was driven to her ways. She was already mentally unstable (what the hellw as with her mom and the wrapping on the soozy box? lol) and being ignored didn't help. The only scenes I felt she did something really evil were when she killed the cat, when she killed Blank, and when she killed Polly. None of them deserved it. Adam was just a pussy who wanted to get into her pants and then when she got weird he got all freaked out. \ But, if you only watch the last 20 minutes, then yes, she's a monster.
Re: Is May a monster ?

by Red_Rabbit (Sat Jun 9 2007 20:45:32)
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She was a murderer, and she didn't have to be. ---------- "We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth."