In her second feature film, Ducournau interrogates the (often gendered) experience of vulnerability through a metaphorical cycle of traumatic injury and shocking violence. Titane is a bit more diffuse and unpredictable. Raw's fleshy metaphors suggest these expectations are impossible to meet, conjuring feelings of fear and frustration that anyone could relate to. As with the rest, Ducournau uses the grappling sisters as a metaphor to emphasize the difficulties of becoming a “woman,” of being required to manage a messy body and all its deepest desires without stepping on (or eating) any toes. This evokes the shame and secondhand embarrassment of any public display of misconduct, but Ducournau turns standard schadenfreude into pure disgust as the sisters draw blood.
The other students stand by and watch them, horrified. Toward the end of the film, the sisters start fighting publicly, attacking and biting one another, sucking at the wounds they're inflicting.
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But if Justine is merely a pig now, repulsive and self-indulgent, she is about to become a much more fearsome animal, baited by her sister.Īlexia teaches Justine how to kill discreetly to satisfy her needs, but the sisters begin to set in on each other. She seems almost helpess, as confused by her hunger as she is desperate to satiate it. As he’s talking, Justine starts shoving as much meat into her mouth as she can manage -and later that night, Adrien catches Justine eating raw chicken from the fridge. He rubs Adrien’s face, explaining that he has a pig in his truck for blood transfusions. Justine and her roommate Adrien ( Rabah Nait Oufella) go get shawarma at a gas station, where a sex worker starts talking to them. As Justine feeds her desires, they only seem to grow. And this is the first taste we get of the clever ways in which Ducournau conveys “normal” feelings through unusual imagery it’s clear from Justine’s panicked reaction to the horse’s procedure that Justine can relate to the constrained animal.ĭucournau explores the social ramifications of self-exploration through the guise of Justine's growing hunger. They administer tranquilizers, then slide a plastic tube down its throat. In the first scene of classes, instructors are prepping a horse for a surgery. At night, the upperclassmen haze the freshman in intense stunts that evolve from the typical - sweaty, drunken bacchanals - to the more tortuous. The school immediately proves to be both socially and academically extreme. Justine ( Garance Marillier) arrives at a grim-looking veterinarian college as an awkward, doe-eyed freshman.
In Raw, Ducournau portrays a girl’s awakening to herself through the metaphorical vehicle of cannibalism. At its core, Raw is a coming-of-age story, not a horror film-but Ducournau leverages body horror tropes to convey just how terrifying and bewildering girlhood can be.
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