Fan Review by Naomi, October 31, 2009
MAY: OBSESSAO ASSASINA or MAY: OBSESSION AND DEATH
I give this one a full 5 of 5 stars because it is a phenomenal film of horror, a dark fairy tale truly heartfelt, a love story, a story of personal demons and lifelong issues that we all can share with MAY, the forlorn girl who is both hero and villain in this story.
May is a young woman who is always alone. Her childhood left her feeling demands for perfection. What you see of her relationship with her perfectionist mother is little, but enough. May is extremely shy, but not a shut-in. She works at the animal hospital and likes to sew costumes. She demands perfection of herself, though it is not so obvious until you realize how she feels about her lazy eye. It looks strange on her and causes her to be intimidated easily. She knows her one imperfection is all it takes for her to avoid getting close to people. However when she meets Adam, a handsome man with hands she admires, she begins to long for romance and companionship in her life, so she goes to the eye doctor to get her lazy eye fixed. She asks Adam out on a date and gets to know him. Considering herself as "weird" and an outsider, she is happy because he professes to be just like her, and that he finds her attractive. But things don't work out. With her heart broken, she works up the courage to have a romantic relation with Polly, the lesbian at work, who May believes has a very sleek and sexy neck. But Polly cheats on May, with a mean but beautiful woman who has great legs, and May's heart breaks again.
So too, does the glass case of May's best doll, Soozy.
The next relationship May dares to begin is one with a blind girl at the special school. This was the most interesting relationship in my opinion, as it seems May picked out this certain blind child hoping that her blindness would prevent the girl from "seeing" May, the awkward, shy woman with a lazy eye. She would like to be "seen" but not in the traditional sense. She would like to be seen through the heart, not the eyes. But the little blind girl seems not to want to be friends with May. She is very distant and never speaks to May with anything aside from snobbery.
May's own cat, a gift from Polly, also rejects May's need for affection. May kills the cat, not out of malice, but out of the hopelessness of constant rejection.
SPOILER:
It is the anatomy of a lost soul who is only searching for a loving connection. May's last attempt to find a friend--a punk rocker who comes to her house and opens her freezer and sees the dead kitty--ends in murder. He is just another mean person who calls her a freak and makes her feel utterly alone and unwanted. May desperately still yearns for a true friend, and there must be a way!
And she comes to a sad conclusion with the total departure of her sanity: to have the perfect friend, just take what she found desireable and perfect in her former friends: Adam (hands), Polly (neck), Loopy (her cat who has pretty fur), Ambrosia (girl with pretty legs), Adam's new girlfriend (has pretty ears) and the nice body of the punk who has a tattoo of Frankenstein, put that all together, and she will finally all that she has dreamed of.
This macabre charmer has all the makings of a cult classic, and is the most delicious treat on Hallow'e'en. All you need is a bowl of candy!
