Screwed up - El hijo (The son)
Yeah, yeah it's hot but I don't care. Early this morning I started my day watching this film and I recommend it to you.
El hijo is about a divorced painter who's no longer allowed to see his two daughters.
This time he wants to do it right, he tells his friends he didn't meet for long as he introduced his wife Sigrid.
Sigrid tries to get pregnant (it's where this film starts) and once she is she wants to do it her way and shuts out her husband. She takes over the house, arranges a "midwfe" and he's not informed or allowed to be present at the birth of his son.
For a short moment he meets his son as the "midwife" lets him inside the room. My first thought was: what about all this blood on the midwife's skirt and those towels.
From the moment I saw Sigrid I didn't trust her and I feel the same about that midwife. I would never invite her inside my house and as the story continues we see how the midwife stays while the father is pushed away and abandoned from his own house.
Once his friends come over to see the baby it takes an awful lot of time till Sigrid finally leaves the room to show Henrik.
What hurts most is that these old friends seem to believe everything the father said is made up. He's exagerating or might been drinking again.
If Henrik has fever and takes his child to visit a doctor this act results in Sigrid calling the police, a violent police (is this behaviour normal) not believing one word of what the father says. Kicked out of his house, jail, court, his friend being his advocate but not believing his story is what father Lorenzo has to deal with. The more I watch the more I wonder what friends are for and why he isn't believed.
Memories of Lorenzo shown are enough proof to me this father doesn't need meds and Sigrid is up to something. It's not about her being her own doctor but her biolab in his basement.
Police, friends, they all refuse to have a look inside the basement where according to Lorenzo his son is kept. He's sure about one thing, that little boy he finally sees and meets is not his son!
Once the father finds himself a way into his basement - while his friends stay with the child that should be his son according to Sigrid - he knows he's right but there's no way out and no way he can save his son.
Let's hope someone else can and will even if it's a few years later.
This film is based on a novel and directed by Sebastian Schindel. It feels to me he doesn't portray the horrors of paternity but the horrors of being married to a sick scientist who uses her child as a lab rat. Therebare all kinds of screwed up people and Sigrid is a Fauci one should hunt forband give death penalty.
Prompt: @mariannewest
It really makes life difficult for the father, it sounds interesting, I'm going to add it to the list.