Piercing

6/15/2019

**_Great style, precious little substance_** > _In most movies like this, these sort of psycho, sexual thrillers, the female character is there to be a damsel in distress, there to be naked or there to be killed in a really brutal way. This movie sets up, here's a guy who wants to kill a prostitute, so you think the movie is getting to deliver all those things, but it so doesn't. The beauty of Mia's character is that she doesn't let herself be any of those tropes, she doesn't let herself be a damsel in distress, get killed, be taken advantage of; she really is the one with all the power and_ _the one that's playing on the mind games._ - Nicholas Pesce; "Nicolas Pesce on His Film Adaptation of Murakami Ryu's _Piercing_" (Eric Ortez Garcia); _Screen Anarchy_ (October 2, 2018) From N