i got stoned a week ago and decided to check off a film of my watchlist and i chose The Killing of a Sacred Deer and i LOOOOVED it, it was truly genius

i mean a 16 years old weirdo isn’t exactly how i imagine the modern version of Artemis but i’m not complaining because Barry Keoghan did it better than anyone could.

every single shot was perfect :o i fear i spent more time reading about this film than actually watching it lol so i basically understand that it wasn’t only based on the ancient greek myth Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides but a modern retelling of that myth, so basically justice, divine punishment and universal balance. Martin is Steve’s karma, a child of a mistake, a consequence that was speaking universal balance and trying to serve objective justice rather than personal justice.

and that’s when i understood why every character is so cold to a point where they don’t even sound, move, behave or look like a normal alive human being, no emotions, human warmth or empathy was shown as if doing so would ruin the whole thing completely, everyone is very dead, empty and even unreal sometimes. what’s even more genius is the intimate and vulnerable scenes in here being the coldest and most dead like the way they have sex..

this is my own interpretation but i noticed that the frame LITERALLY shakes once during the whole film which was completely filled with stable clinical frames, and it did when Steven (the father) broke his passive character and acted humanly towards his son instead of freezing like usual, and i think the shaky camera of that scene gave it a sense of humanity and let a bit of rawness and realistic messiness leaks through unlike the rest that was perfect in a mechanical emotionless way (which obviously was the pattern)

ps: i would like to think of this as a reminder that even the wealthiest people must pay off their karmic debts in a way or another lol