If you thought your childhood was hard, wait till you hear this and blame your parents for everything
Sometimes it can be quite a challenge to feed children. Many parents will recall that the moment any vegetables are served for dinner, everyone will become a fussy eater. Its’ no wonder that some children HATE the thought of eating a bowl of peas! Well, this situation can certainly be alleviated if somehow parents take away all vegetables and restrict children to sugar!
But not all children are picky eaters because they are fastidious about the kind of food they eat. There are some however who find eating a challenge because of related disorders that develop and these would certainly require therapists to ensure proper treatment is administered!
The story of Ruth Paxton begins with a bizarre perspective since Betsey (Jessica Alexander), the teenage daughter of Holly (Sienna Guillory), refuses her mother’s meals, especially peas. It would take time for the audience to accept this unfathomable act as a restriction developing from a type of eating disorder. It is reasonable to conclude in Betsey’s case that there was such a disorder developing as a direct result of her father’s suicide. However, there is certainly another broader cause to her aversion of food as this odd tale progresses.
The feature film progresses and Betsey finds herself alone and looking for a group outside the building when it began to fade away. She even witnesses what some consider the end of the world a blood moon. It is not necessary to believe that it is merely a coincidence which allows people to consider a blood red moon as being nothing if viewed without context.
A verse from the Book of Joel states, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.” Also, there is another mention of the moon turning blood red in the Book of Revelations which on its own is a comprehensive bloodshed prophecy.
What does this have to do with Betsey’s lunch-room troubles? Well, it is all a bit too simplistic really but her cuteness rates go down after the moon phases. She talks about the end of the world, and then once ‘sees the light’ believes that her body is owned by someone much better than her and hence refuses to eat. Children across the globe have come up with some brilliant information that has helped them avoid their green vegetables but this surely has to take the crown.
As such Betsey stands by what she is saying, she is just being difficult regarding eating her mothers cooking, but there is some indication that she may actually have gone insane. However, this does not answer the question of how Betsey goes for months without food and still does not lose a pound. But then can an apocalypse really be round the corner? Is it true that Betsey’s body was created to serve a higher power? And that higher power, is it also providing sustenance?
Paxton teases these questions out of us but she does not seek to provide us with any definite conclusions. The readers, who have not yet had the chance to read the book on which the film is based, are warned that there is nothing new to be learnt from this movie, other than the text allusions to the scriptures, well-known by all people, but not the sage.
Even so, enlightenment is not a prerequisite for watching a movie because plenty other horror features have been lacking in that regard. It Comes At Night, the Neon demon, eraserhead by David Lynch, to name a few but there are plenty of others that you’ve probably watched and enjoyed the end, but were baffled by the beginning.
Certain motions can be easily described as weird, which is an appropriate label in well made films since the acting and the images are also good which in this case, A Banquet does just that.
That said, in terms of expectation, this is still not as good as it could have been as in my opinion, it is more puzzling than it is meant to be. I’m not sure if Paxton desires her viewers to judge her film as ‘weird for the sake of it’ which is likely not the case as she is making a comment on grief or faith. For me, she gives her audience a lot to take away from several times with great opportunities to scout more information, which I didn’t think were clear enough and because of that, the film is more an irritating watch than an intriguing one.
Naturally, perhaps I should give it a second viewing to appreciate it better, but for the moment, I am as out of the picture as you may be when trying to analyze the imagery and apocalyptic visions recounted by Betsey. If you do have an interpretation for this film, kindly drop us a line in the comments section to explain to us this perplexing and weighty film.
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