As the movie goes on, India’s conflicting emotions – grief, anger, jealousy, desire – begin to form dangerous currents and eddies. Eventually they’re spilling over in a torrent, such as the fantasy sequence in which she and Charlie perform a piano duet and she responds to his slithering style with a combination of revulsion and lust.
In such scenes, Stoker captures the way adolescence blurs far more lines than the one between youth and adulthood. The movie recognizes that other, more troubling things can become indistinct at this age. The line between family and foe. Between independence and defiance. And, especially under Park’s direction, between violence and sex…
