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SUMMARY: An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.

Have you seen Safe (1995)?

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lester had no right to be serving like this

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safe (1995) dir. todd haynes

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Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995).

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some screenshots i took of safe (1995) a while back

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By looking at illness for what it is in Todd Haynes' "Safe," we begin to uncover the true terror of this modern masterpiece.

“While these many takes on the film are rich and valid, sickness in cinema is often read as a symbol for something else, whether it’s the nauseating aspects of society or repulsion at our own mortal bodies, at the expense of discourse around the actual conditions. Indeed, Susan Sontag wrote that ‘nothing is more punitive than to give disease a meaning,’ as it invariably leads to moralizing the biological. Yet of course illness is not strictly chemical—there is an entire power network built around its classification and treatment. And by looking strictly at illness for what it is in Safe we can begin to uncover the true terror of this horror masterpiece.”

"... it reveals a puzzle at the heart of Safe: what Foucault called the patient’s paradox. A doctor must subtract an individual’s qualities to codify and treat the disease in their body, and yet that individual is the only source of the qualitative phenomena that describe the disease. Being “patient” would mean deferring to the doctor’s ability to determine what is a valid disease, but this would not necessarily include MCS. A patient’s meaningful engagement with their condition requires them to deny that power dynamic.”

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