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Despite being a film that abuses of silence, recurrence and plans extremely long (the joint that gives a consistency that borders on the unbearable, and maybe that's the intention of the director), Sleeping Beauty did not cause me sleep, or made me uncomfortable, but arrested my attention in hopes of a turnaround, a start who was Lucy.
I have seen the majority of Emily movies, and I shall say this is one of her best performances, judging first by the girl's age which is surprising.
Nevertheless, still she has some things to learn: it was possible to notice her movements as she slept, movements, apparently, someone who is awake . Pay attention to the uncomfortable scene of the bald old man licking her face.
The direction of Julia Leigh is good and certainly safe, the almost complete absence of soundtrack only adds raw to the aspect of the film, the photography is excellent, the direction a little piece of art though. But the sticking point of the work of Julia Leigh lives in the script, right? Well, certainly Julia doesn’t gives us stereotypical characters and clichéd situations: instead of seeing a girl shattered and prostitutes for money, we see someone apparently remorseless than is safe, instead of seeing grotesque scenes of necrophilia sex, we were surprised at first, knowing that the penetration is prohibited inside the mansion of Clara, a fact that creates an aura of eroticism very thin (thinner until exposed in " Eyes Wide Shut") , so thin as to be sinister and is well portrayed by the original little party (with prostitutes dressed in black - in fact , we call them prostitutes? They serve more than decoration for the environment, including one is inside a table).
In fact , the catch from that is not just a brothel, but a place where you can relive your youth, is very good and there, indeed, the childlike (and why not immaculate?) Emily Browning was decisive, certainly does it not make Lucy a princess fairy tale? It makes the "Sleeping Beauty " a macabre fairy tale? Anyway, the title is not there in vain, and allows for multiple readings.
The writer uses the default resource to enhance the mystique of the film ( and perhaps others have used ) , giving rise to different interpretations on some facts that pervade the plot such as:
The biggest, of course, the shocking ending. After all the screaming , we are reintroduced to the scene from another angle at another time, what had previously been found that the man who accompanies Lucy had killed himself (and it apparently had been combined with Clara). But what can be seen after the second scene is that Lucy had also tried to kill herself, only that this hypothesis is supported only with the breath of actress (and, as we know, in scenes of death, the actors shall not stop their actions, breathe so little - but compare the times when Lucy is sleeping with the final scene, the breath , this scene is much weaker ). Once her plan went wrong, she freaked out . After all, there is no Prince Charming for that Sleeping Beauty, seeking motivation in drugs and sex ( and, therefore, has no regrets about selling her body).
The posture of scenes seem unnecessary for me to serve the purpose of daily life with that character. Silence is necessary for the construction of filmic aura. Lacked a bit of action and coordination, but considering that this is the first movie Julia Leigh, there is no hurry .
