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Boxing Helena
Drama, Romance, Thriller
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically disturbing relationship thrillers about desire curdling into coercion and the collapse of romantic fantasy.
- Tone
- eerie, bleak, surreal
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- obsession, control, bodily autonomy, captivity, unrequited love
- Setting
- contemporary, affluent suburban home and medical spaces