A painful reality and future life of Valentina, she discovers by accident that she is mentally ill and suffering from mental illness. Doctors discover that the safety of her mind is threatened because she believes that an employee within the mental health clinic is chasing her, but she must do whatever the doctor wants to keep her safe and get out of the hospital.
Above all, he revels, with palpable joy, in his repertory of distorted, disturbing, lurid yet lucid images, making a furious movie that signifies nothing but the irrepressible vitality of the cinema itself. Soderbergh's experiment is a success.
In 2018, the questions women are asking of art like this are: What exactly are we being asked to consume, and why do we need to sit through it? The answer is, we don't.
Offering up a very different persona from The Crown's Elizabeth Windsor, Foy is a revelation as Sawyer struggles to stay sane and alive in a Kafka-esque nightmare.
