Incest?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Eyes Without a Face
Liz99 — 18 years ago(July 14, 2007 04:45 PM)
I haven't seen this film (I was directed to this movie from another discussion board) but I noticed that one of the plot keywords for it is "incest". Yet, reading over some of the threads here, there is no mention of that kind of relationship between the girl and her father.
So, my question is whether this is some subtext that a particular viewer read into it or do you think it is an element of the story? I think I can handle the horror you describe but the thought of incest creeps me out. -
TroubledWorld — 18 years ago(July 22, 2007 02:19 AM)
Nobody responded yet? OK. The professor is very creepy but there is no mention - not even suggestion - of incestuous relationship. He has quite another obsession: his scientif experiments. His daughter is more, as she herself says at one point, a guinea pig.
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swanstep — 13 years ago(October 19, 2012 02:41 PM)
In the 'Cinema of The Fantastic' interviews on the Criterion dvd, Franju is asked whether the father/daughter relationship in the film is 'a bit ambiguous', which I took to be referring to hints of incestuous attraction even if not actual incest. Franju replies 'Very much so'.
For myself, I don't see any clear hint of even incestuous attraction on the film, although there's no doubt it would, for example, make additional sense of the extreme actions the father/doctor takes through out the film and also Christiane's vengeful action at the end (setting the dogs on him). -
PoppyTransfusion — 12 years ago(May 21, 2013 01:28 PM)
I wondered if he was remaking Christiane's face so that it resembled that of his deceased/disappeared wife more closely than did Christiane's original face.
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