Being a parent is difficult. Yes, both the water is humid, but despite the obvious nature of that recruiting, perhaps those of us without a network do not give enough credit for how emotional, financial and mental taxation is to be responsible not only for your own life, but someone else . This difficulty becomes exponentially more insignificant when someone with constant mental health problems becomes a parent. Even if you are relatively well adapted, the prospect of having your whole method of handling your daily life (something that most of us never feel fully we have a handle in the first place), in the first place, your workload is essentially doubled .

Many films have been made (not to mention novels, performances and even songs) about how tricky navigation can be in the world of parenting. However, they are less made for the mental state that it can invest too much responsibility. Even if you are not a parent, the flood of the content of our modern lifestyle can allow you to refer to this; It is too easy to feel like drowning in trouble, and disturbing is possible, despite your best efforts, those problems can only be complex instead of leaving.

"Writer Mary Mary Bronstein" "If I had legs, I would kick you", captures this stormy, absurd, terribly upset state of mind, and then some. It is an experimental study of the character of Linda, a mother in trouble and she is played with an exceptional skill by Rose Byrne. While BIRN's performance is an anchor around which the whole film is orbiting, it is impressive how Bronstein is able to capture and maintain this very anxiety for a feature film without losing the close understanding of the pace and material of the film. Bronstein employs surrealism along with the immediate vicinity of life, as well as includes a surprisingly unusual acting ensemble, without even allowing the film, unlike Linda, to fall apart.

"If I had my feet, I would kick you," begins to build her tapestry immediately, introducing us with Linda, as she is already struggling to keep care for her child (Delani Quinn), who suffers from unnamed illness and eating disorder What requires it to feed through a tube in the stomach. Linda is trying to balance a large number of rotation plates - looking at her child, deals with the doctor's doctor, Dr. Spring (playing Bronstein herself), who has real concern about Linda's mental state, maintaining her Working as a therapist goes to the therapy itself (conducted by her distant colleague, played by Conan O'Brien), as long as her husband is absent on a prolonged work trip or rest, which is probably a combination of both.

That is when, a beautiful evening, a pipe burst in Linda's apartment, which causes the whole apartment to be flooded with water, and in the ceiling to form an awkward hole. Linda is forced (or at least feels forced by her inappropriate and lazy landowner and the repair teams that hire them) to move themselves and their child to a beach motel. Once there, Linda struggles with a rude clerk, Diana (Ivy Wolf), a persistent attractive guest, Jamesesi ($ AP Rocky) and her own problems with alcoholism and the constant desire to literally move away from her problems. As Bronstein states in the official stamp kit of the film, her goal with the film was "to catch the visceral sense of that desperate mental state where you fear that everything is not falling apart, but that decay is all your fault."

Not only is the "feet" achieving that goal, but it is one of the most famous films that cause anxiety in recent memory. Easily clears the last holder of that title, "Unsceptible gems", What is ironic given the co-director of the movie Jos Safdi is a producer here. Unlike the "gems", the continuous tension of the editing and the anxiety of the "legs" feels far more realistic and complex. Where the leading character of "gems" was essentially the source of which all his problems came out, it is not so cut and dried to say that Linda is only responsible for her torment; As Bronstein mentioned in her statement, she only feels like he is to blame, which is somehow worse. Many of us believe that our lives are out of our control, that everyday life is an endless game to play bait with problems that arise. "Legs" compounds and crystallize that sensation, making it clean and indispensable.

The film may be described as "unexplained gems" for mothers, but it would not give the wealth of the horror roots of the film. Cinematography (courtesy of Dop Christopher Messina) and the complex sound design (by Philippe Mrmeder) push the film into the kingdom of horror, with shots framed uncomfortably near and sounds attacking the listener from every direction. For most of the film, both the child and Linda's husband exist only as voices-in this way, they are almost not individuals, but Bansi-like creatures who constantly torment every moment of Linda's awakening. The choice remembers Ennenifer Kent's "Babaduk". Another horror film about the mounted pressure of parenting.

What most remembers Bronstein's film David Lynch's "Eraserhead", Especially with her allure to use a surrealist image at certain points in the film. Like "Eraserhead", "Legs" refers to a parent, who is not sure whether she wants to be a parent in the first place, and every little terror and difficulties in her life is consolidated in that big hole in her apartment ceiling, a place in which the camera enters and finds a heinous cavity there. While these surrealistic moments are thematically relevant, Bronstein cannot find a way to elegantly mix them in Linda's experience, so they feel as true as the rest of the film; They plate the lily a little too.

Much more successful is the existential terror introduced when one of Linda's patients, Carolina (Daniel McDonald), disappeared. A new parent, Carolina, has been introduced to her child, making her possible leaving even more confusing and disturbing. It is an element that Bronstein uses to tie in aspects of cases in the real life of inappropriate (or at least unstable) mothers, borrowing an extra, eerie validity of Linda's experiences.

As Bronstein explained in his introduction to the film during her premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, she wanted to make a "experiential" movie, and that's exactly what "if I had legs, I would kick you." This means that the film has many rough edges that are either deliberately vague or frustrating; Don't look for a resolution here. Although the film has the power to leave you incredibly shaken by the finals, for others, it may not seem far enough, its elements of the plot only elliptical for their taste. The most undisputed aspect of the film is the BIRN movie and it belongs to it, and it carries every scene with a high wire pan.

However, where the "legs" are most shining, it is not in the presentation of nipples and all portraits of a woman's deficiency, nor a well -rounded view of the difficulties of parenting, but in the absurdist takes the anxiety of life. The casting of O'Brien and Rocky are two genius strokes - there is something so delicious when they see celebrities as theirs or disturbingly play against the type (in the case of O'Brien) or to be a voice of reason in more and more overwhelming Linda (in Rocky of Rocky (in Rocky case) Of us who would rather laugh rather than crying on everyday pressures of the real world, "legs" is almost a movie about comfort. Help and threat.

Being a parent is difficult, and not all of us have that responsibility. However, if the feeling "needs a village to educate" has some truth about it, then maybe none of us really can escape that difficulty. Ideally, we should all be careful about each other, but how can we be when the wounds are fresh and the gap is so deep? The film has its rough edges, but when it comes to researching and imitating these thoughts, it's really a movie with your feet.

/Movie rating: 8 out of 10

"If I had legs, I would kick you," was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Wille will be released later this year.