"Oh, god. Question mark."

oh no

I can't even tell what kind of character Sweetie is supposed to be -- if she's meant to be the horrible sister from hell who ruins Kay's life, she's far too much of a troubled soul for me not to want to be somewhat sympathetic to her situation. But does the picture *want* me to be sympathetic?

It's all too harsh and realistic to register to me like a comedy, and too off-kilter and odd for me to register it as something that wants to be taken seriously.

You could compare the off-kilter nature of this to David Lynch, but where Lynch often finds levity in the darkness, and his whole thing is held up by a very sincere belief in the good side of humanity, this is *just* bleak. Sweetie isn't funny to me, she's just unwell, undiagnosed, untreated.

It's *just* sad, and the picture offers, so far, no relief, at least not to me.

Still don't like it, but some conclusions:

One, I'm overthinking this.

Jane Campion, on the commentary, constantly laughs at Sweetie's antics. She laughs at her death scene. Sweetie is meant to be funny, adorable, charming. In a way I can't access because what I see is not a hard fact of life in the context of which life, which is often inherently funny, simply carries on, but a severe mental health crisis.