From Inside is based on a bold, colorful (mostly red) 1993 graphic novel by John Bergin, and now Bergin has written, directed, and animated the film version mostly on his own. It is now on the festival circuit, and has been getting some good buzz. How could it not? If it's even remotely like the comic, it'll include some very haunting imagery: Lakes of blood, men wrapped like mummies with skeleton dogs as pets, train cars packed with the dead.
It is one strange concoction; Basically a pregnant woman's journey on a train across a desolate wasteland. What the train stands for, and what the landscape stands for, is up to you to figure out, because there are hardly any words in the book, and I doubt there will be any more in the movie.
A friend of mine, whom I had shared the book with in high school, said it helped her immensely during her pregnancy; To think of the horrors the heroine goes through, and yet she sticks it out. So is it a journey of hope? I don't know how much hope I would have in such a situation.
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