{"id":30346,"date":"2019-02-05T04:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30346"},"modified":"2019-02-05T04:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:08:41","slug":"control-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/control-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Control (2017) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CONTROL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CONTROL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CONTROL.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CONTROL-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CONTROL-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201cA Real Scream\u201d Shorts Block<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found Kimmy Gatewood\u2019s \u201cControl\u201d to be pretty fucking excellent, and it\u2019s probably one of my favorite short films of the \u201cFinal Girls Berlin Film Festival\u201d so far. The premise is genius and her short brought me back and forth from grinning to tisking in sheer sadness; let\u2019s just say I related to her creation more than I thought. While the premise has every chance to be exploitative and played for cheap laughter, there\u2019s an inherent sadness underneath every moment, and it\u2019s more poignant, in the end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alison Becker plays a young woman who wakes up one night and has decided to commit suicide. As she readies her suicide note, she tears it up and writes another one, then she tears that one up and writes another. Unsatisfied she shreds the notes, and turns to her laptop to complete the process. Director Gatewood\u2019s \u201cControl\u201d has a wonderful premise to it that relies on Becker\u2019s character who is so Obsessive Compulsive and a complete neat freak that she has to control literally everything in her life. She even has to control her suicide, the circumstances of her suicide, and how everyone in her life will react and respond after she\u2019s died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cControl\u201d unfolds with zero dialogue, and much of Becker\u2019s character is explored through the way she controls her environment and reacts to everything around her. There\u2019s a lot of exposition with how she enacts her suicide, from the labeling of her furniture to the names she writes down when labeling certain items. Maybe she has a lot of people in her life and feels all alone. Maybe she doesn\u2019t have anyone at all. Maybe the Obsessive Compulsion is what\u2019s driving her to commit suicide. Maybe it\u2019s all a part of her sickness.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case may be this is clearly a woman who is terrified of losing one iota of grip on her life, and she\u2019s decided to relinquish everything with one swift act based on emotions and mental illness. When it comes to mental illness no matter how much we think we have a handle on the world, we often feel like everything is chaotic and absolutely haywire. \u201cControl\u201d is a powerful, excellent statement about mental illness and how sometimes those we think have everything in control are often the ones who need the most help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Real Scream\u201d Shorts Block I found Kimmy Gatewood\u2019s \u201cControl\u201d to be pretty fucking excellent, and it\u2019s probably one of my favorite short films of the \u201cFinal Girls Berlin Film Festival\u201d so far. The premise is genius and her short brought me back and forth from grinning to tisking in sheer sadness; let\u2019s just say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[259,302,501,938],"class_list":["post-30346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-dark-comedy","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30348,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30346\/revisions\/30348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}