Review: May 2002

← Okay, that picture isn’t the real poster for the movie, “May”.. but I find the actual poster pretty boring, while this amazing visual adaptation of the movie is pure perfection! Anyway, this movie is awesome, I remember watching it when I was pretty young and totally not appreciating it. Then, recently, when I started seeing a number of rave reviews for this film, I thought it deserved another chance and I am so glad that I gave it one. “May” is a very artistic movie about a misfit girl who grows up to be a misfit woman, her name is May. There’s something different about May, she’s dark and strange, and more than a little awkward..she certainly doesn’t fit in or make friends.. though, not for lack of trying. Since childhood, her only constant friend has been a doll that her mother gave her, the doll is in a case and her mother always taught her never to open it. One day, after failing, yet again, at ‘normal’ social interaction, May totally snaps. She begins to realize that there are no completely perfect people, only perfect sections or parts… So she begins to ponder, how could one obtain the perfect friend? Oh and did I mention May is quite handy with the sewing machine? Yeah..
This movie is a lot of fun, it’s not quite a comedy, done in more of a sarcastic deadpan style, it’s gory, it’s sexy, it’s twisted and it’s artistic! But one thing I especially loved was the way May transforms from an awkward, shy, peculiar little thing, into a strong, confident, sarcastic ‘femme fatale’, once she accepts who she is and just embraces her psychosis. An interesting and creative idea with decisive and fierce follow-through, “May” is a cynical tale of madness and inability to conform to society’s ‘norms’.