The film is as capricious as its subjects, and all the better and enthralling for committing to this reflexive strategy. The film uncomfortably asks us to sympathize with all parties via a non-cognitive sensationalism, absconding moralism because we see them as victims and their 'victims' as assailants regardless of who initiated the ploy (several attempted rapes will muddy any waters there). Its absurdism fluidly oscillates between a tone that delights in deviance, through a borderline-fantastical childlike spirit, and one that sobers us to the brutality of consequence within the social horror that assaults both the young antisocial girls and their targets. Here we're invited into the peripheries of our anti-heroines' perverse subjectivity, with surrealistic imagery, bitter playfulness, and harrowing moral dissonance. Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal aka Don't Deliver Us from Evil is just fantastic- miles better than the more realistically-grounded but comparatively-stale Heavenly Creatures, which approaches this case in an entirely different way.
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