Clover explains the situation as “…the horror film may present an interesting, and perhaps instructive, case of oscillation between masochistic and sadistic poles.
But the main argument here is that these dominated, punished women in horror movies are the ones the male viewers identify themselves with. Also there is no doubt that both Raw, even if it’s only at the beginning, and other movies of the body genre concentrate on female victimisation. She says body genres are often described as low because “…the spectator is caught up in an almost involuntary mimicry of the emotion or sensation the body on the screen along with the fact that the body displayed is female.” This quote especially is important for me because while I was watching the movie, in the most intense scenes of cannibalism, I found myself biting my hand because of my nervousness, which is the exact same mimicry that I adopted from the ongoing spectacle. She breaks this taboo by putting it into a horror movie, a body genre like pornography and melodrama, as Carol Clover describes it. Cannibalism is “The Taboo”, together with incest. It is a desire so suppressed that you don’t even realise that you actually want to see it. You don’t want to see it, but you can’t get your eyes off it. While the viewers have lost their appetite for regular fleshy, bloody movies, she comes with one that literally locks you to the screen. Cronenberg does it by not hiding the flesh, while Ducornau does it by making her character eat it.
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These two directors’ decisions may seem exact opposite of each other but really they have the same source of concern in creating an uncanny environment for audiences and at the same time keep them wondering and make them watch the movie with a sense of suspense. There aren’t many materials or raw footage concerning a cannibal also it has never been a preferable topic even in the horror movie genre. That being said the main reason that pushed Cronenberg to make less fleshy movies is the same reason Ducornau chooses cannibalism. That is not the case at all for cannibalism. Thanks to technological developments, those vivid and brutal images are no longer discreet but are available in every click. It is easier now than ever to make a scene that shows every single detail of a decapitation. As the article discusses the more capitalists try to conceal the death penalties and executions, the more they find themselves a place on the silver screen. What I mean by that is the fact that bloodshed, dismemberment, interior organs are no longer an “ick factor” for current audiences. After reading Timothy Holland’s article about “virtual flesh”, I came to the conclusion that cannibalism is not “banal”. I will create a journey for this paper but especially for myself to fully understand how these elements come together so flawlessly and create a magical movie.įirst of all I want to talk about the main reason why Ducournau has chosen cannibalism as her main subject. It has so many levels that I was both amazed and confused while picking my reading materials for it because almost all of them fit. Julia Ducournau does it so delicately and gracefully that it may seem just like a regular horror movie for most people but once you get a glimpse of what it actually is it is impossible not to be impressed. The main reason I have chosen this movie, knowing it would be hard to criticise, is that the film Raw, and the director Julia Ducournau, touch so many ongoing debates. In this critical reading about the French-Belgian horror drama Raw by Julia Ducournau (2016) I will focus on various arguments we’ve covered throughout the semester and hopefully connect all of them together in a way that makes sense.
Finally, I explore the depths of the movies ending with the concept of abjection and what an abject really is by arguing and questioning its existence. I make an overall critical reading using various reading materials from different critics including Deleuze, Guattari, Clover, Holland, Williams, and Rizzo. I aim to explain the idea of a "being" and a "cannibal" and how these two things are different from or similar to each other in Ducournau's cinematic world. This critical essay has various arguments regarding the movie Raw from Julia Ducournau including the main reason why the director has chosen cannibalism as her main topic, the meanings of less and more flesh in the visual world and how horror movies as body genres affect the audience. A Critical Reading On The Movie "Raw" Saba Mengi
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