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Mental Minor 
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DISABILITY |
Mental
Illness Obsessive behaviour |
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NOTES |
A young
naive and withdrawn woman, Pinky (Spacek), arrives in a small
South Californian town. There she gets a job in the local spa
for people with arthritis and she is shown the ropes by Millie
(Duvall). Soon Pinky moves in with Millie. Looking at and
listening to the two women you'd think they were a natural 'couple'.
But their mental aberrations turn them in different directions.
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Pinky is
ready to believe anything and in order to fit in she |
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obsessively
copies Millie behaviour and appearance. But |
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Millie also
has a slanted view of the world she inhabits. She is under the
delusion that men find her sexy. When she does find a man
it is the drunk husband of the third woman, Willie, a local
artist. Millie throws Pinky out of the bedroom and Pinky attempts
suicide. |
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Of course
Pinky is as unsuccessful at this as other things. |
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But as she
recovers it is Millie who starts to mimic Pinky's |
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By this time
if you've stayed the course you will have |
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accepted the
spooky, dream-like mood of the film. There are |
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no
explanations for the women's behaviour and we can only |
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observe and
come to our own conclusions. While there isn't |
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much of a
story there appears to be more going on than |
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Notes
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