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The Beguiled
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During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy claustrophobic psychological tension, simmering sexual politics, and period dramas where social decorum gradually gives way to manipulation and danger.
- Tone
- tense, eerie, bleak
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- desire, repression, power, rivalry, betrayal
- Setting
- nineteenth-century wartime, isolated girls’ boarding school in the rural South
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