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Lovely flick. My two cents about its meaning. SPOILERS.

posted 3 years ago by lolkatz (495)
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A censorship board officer is haunted by a profound guilt for the fate of her sister, who has been missing since an unexplained incident during her childhood. Over the years, this guilt builds up to the extent that she starts "editing out" real experiences from her brain, replacing them with delusional fantasies of her 'saving' and 'rescuing' her sister until the entire reality she perceives becomes yet another "video nasty" horror flick she has to review every day at her work. The message is clear: Why does society censor stuff? To mitigate its own guilt.

[–] mr159 (136) 3 years ago

Nice take. It explains the censor board setting of the movie. Even the director alludes to the real horror being out there already.
Also, I think it's pretty clear that the childhood incident was Enid killing her sister, and then self-censoring the entire event. This is indicated when she discusses the Amnesiac Killer with her colleague, who says the brain edits itself to cope with trauma. Ever her parents tell her that she's never been clear about exactly what she remembers about the day her sister went missing.