homes in on the discord between two generational narcissisms: that of benny's parents whose obsession with good repute and prosperity bears the contrivance of nepotistic brutality, and the leveling counterweight of their progeny's mediated narcosis. neither fetishized reflection, whether that of the tv screen or the biological child, is observed earnestly enough to incite real prevention.
if the viewer perseveres enough to see beyond, if not to excuse, The Brood’s tropes of woman-repugnance (the matrilineal genealogy of malevolence and narcissism, of the vexed woman consequentially… read review