"Proxy" is a strange and unpleasant movie. It has quite a few unanswered questions, which at first might pique your interest, but by the end, I was more or less just glad it was over.
The movie opens with a pregnant woman being bludgeoned over the head and knocked unconscious. She is then seen lying in broad daylight, the assailant hammering on her belly, obviously attempting to kill the baby.
The baby is then delivered in hospital by caesarean, stillborn.
The victim of this assault has no friends or family, so she goes to a support group where she meets a woman, Melanie, who claims that her son was kidnapped.
Later, however, she sees her in a department store where she freaks out, claiming her son has been kidnapped. In the parking lot, our protagonist sees her carrying her son back into the place she claims she just lost him.
Surmising that Melanie wants to lose her kid, and inexplicably thinking she might be attracted to her, Esther comes onto her but is rebuffed utterly, so she breaks into Melanie's house and kills her son off-screen. When the husband realises what she did, he murders Esther, who had been our protagonist up til now, with a shotgun. This is also shown off-screen, but liberal amounts of blood is shown splashing his face.
So now Melanie is the protagonist. But it turns out that Esther's assailant was actually her girlfriend who killed her baby at her request? If so, why did she do it in broad daylight, where she obviously could have been caught? Why didn't Esther just throw herself down a flight of stairs or something?
And when the husband kills Esther. He didn't even know she'd killed his kid. What happened in that room had barely been established. But he just grabs a gun and goes boom boom.
"Proxy" seems to be set in a world in which everybody is a psychopath. Extreme violence is never far away. I have no idea what to make of it. But there's not enough to think about or get involved with in the movie to make it troubling. It's just unpleasant.
The movie opens with a pregnant woman being bludgeoned over the head and knocked unconscious. She is then seen lying in broad daylight, the assailant hammering on her belly, obviously attempting to kill the baby.
The baby is then delivered in hospital by caesarean, stillborn.
The victim of this assault has no friends or family, so she goes to a support group where she meets a woman, Melanie, who claims that her son was kidnapped.
Later, however, she sees her in a department store where she freaks out, claiming her son has been kidnapped. In the parking lot, our protagonist sees her carrying her son back into the place she claims she just lost him.
Surmising that Melanie wants to lose her kid, and inexplicably thinking she might be attracted to her, Esther comes onto her but is rebuffed utterly, so she breaks into Melanie's house and kills her son off-screen. When the husband realises what she did, he murders Esther, who had been our protagonist up til now, with a shotgun. This is also shown off-screen, but liberal amounts of blood is shown splashing his face.
So now Melanie is the protagonist. But it turns out that Esther's assailant was actually her girlfriend who killed her baby at her request? If so, why did she do it in broad daylight, where she obviously could have been caught? Why didn't Esther just throw herself down a flight of stairs or something?
And when the husband kills Esther. He didn't even know she'd killed his kid. What happened in that room had barely been established. But he just grabs a gun and goes boom boom.
"Proxy" seems to be set in a world in which everybody is a psychopath. Extreme violence is never far away. I have no idea what to make of it. But there's not enough to think about or get involved with in the movie to make it troubling. It's just unpleasant.