If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

I think Mary Bronstein bet her husband that she could invert almost everything about Uncut Gems and still make the audience feel the same way.

Where that movie follows the male main character as the driving force, careening through the world like a bull in a china shop, this one follows a woman as the world falls through the gaps in her grasp. But you feel exhilarating anguish - and humor in that anguish - all the same.

The visual (non-visual?) choice of never showing the daughter - just hearing her voice off-screen - was ingenious and added subtle horror to every scene. Abstract, guilty weight instead of personhood that keeps you locked in to Linda's subjective experience.

As a new parent myself, I gripped my cushion out of recognition through the new-mom-and-baby scenes. And I still think the most terrifying part of her situation is in the first scene: your child is sick and you can't help.