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1. #SOPHINEYOUBLOW MYMIND HOW TO#
2. #SOPHINEYOUBLOW MYMIND MOVIE#
3. #SOPHINEYOUBLOW MYMIND SKIN#
4. #SOPHINEYOUBLOW MYMIND SERIES#

There is some wonderful makeup prosthetics to reveal Mia's skin peeling from her legs, leaving behind shiny black gamines that reminded me of Under the Skin. When Bruhlmann does focus on the mermaid transformation, the film is inherently fascinating and consequently aggravating, as you imagine what a better version of this premise could have afforded. If these two were meant to serve as the key for audience empathy, we needed more scenes with them developing as characters rather than repeating rote rebellious teen hijinks. She's not a terribly complex character but what does she mean to Mia? Is she a genuine friend, a figure of sexual desire, a cautionary tale, a rival? Blue My Mind seems to emphasize a sexual awakening for Mia and attaches Gianna as the recipient of those confused feelings. Much of this hour hinges on the audience caring about the relationship forming between Mia and Gianna, and I couldn't because I think the film was too indecisive on what Gianna represented. It comes across as a dangerous kink that tempts Mia but then is forgotten. If I was being generous, I'd say it was connected to Mia learning to enjoy not breathing through her lungs and setting up a transformation for gills. There's a scene where the girls trade choking each other out for an oxygen-deprived euphoric high. It's effective, though there are moments that hint at something more that's never developed, like her sexual predilections that take on an extreme variety.

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A solid hour of this movie is simply Mia sneaking behind her parents back, experimenting with her new friends, and testing her boundaries. This curiosity pushes Mia to investigate her family's history but it too is left incomplete, another dangling interesting idea unattended.

There's some tension over whether Mia is their biological child considering what she's undergoing. Mia's parents don't understand why she's acting out and what has happened to their little girl. They smoke, they skip school, they shoplift they're your classic bad influences that a typical bourgeois family would disapprove. The majority of this movie is Mia acting out to try and fit in with her new pals. It's like the filmmakers decided that their one unique element wasn't so special after all. This is what makes Blue My Mind all the more frustrating because the mermaid aspects are poorly integrated until the final 20 minutes, and even then it's sadly too late. The genre dabbing is what separates both movies from their ilk.

#SOPHINEYOUBLOW MYMIND HOW TO#

Both Raw and Blue My Mind (the title still makes me hurt on the inside) function as sexual awakenings linked to monstrous appetites, both literal and figurative, that the women don't know how to control or if they should even attempt to. The coming-of-age model also works as a vehicle for some unconventional urges, as demonstrated as recently as last year in the visceral French horror film Raw, about a young woman finding her sense of self awaken with cannibalistic desires. Horror has long been parlayed as a metaphor for the strange and confusing time of puberty, having one's body morph and change against your will, feeling like an outsider, a freak. For far too long with Blue My Mind, the mermaid transformation is kept as an afterthought to a docu-drama approach to rebellious adolescence more akin to a Thirteen than David Cronenberg. It would be the primary conflict and primary secret. In a movie built upon the concept of girl-turns-into-mermaid, you would think there would be a lot of creepy and fascinating body horror episodes. She's confused and angry and desperate to hide her secret from her friends and family. She's craving salt water, eating the fish out of her parent's fish tank, and noticing that her toes are starting to merge together with webbing. Mia is also undergoing some very radical changes. Mia (Luna Wedler) is 15 years old, the new girl at a new school, and anxious to fit in with the cool kids, chiefly the mean queen Gianna (Zoe Pastelle Holthuizen). It's too bad that Blue My Mind feels like the first draft of its freaky concept and proves ultimately unsatisfying. This Swiss movie replaces the werewolf story with a mermaid, which brings to mind an unsettling re-creation of Splash as bizarre body horror.

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The Canadians struck rich gory glory with the Ginger Snaps series where young women turned into werewolves. Blue My Mind is another in the burgeoning sub-genre of pubescent transformative features. Who let this happen? Who let a horror movie, without any sense of humor, have a pun-laden title? Whoever did this should be fired, and if it's writer/director Lisa Bruhlmann, then she should have her final grade revoked (the finished film served as her thesis work for her film school). I have an antipathy toward puns as humor in general, but to name your movie a pun is a startlingly bad decision. I cannot overstate how much I simply hate this movie's title, Blue My Mind.