Online platforms appeared the film Josephine Decker “Shirley” is an experimental biopic of writer Shirley Jackson, who received at the festival “Sundance” 2020 special jury prize for contribution to the development of auteur cinema. According to Julia Siegelman, a picture really immerses the viewer in the imagination of the famous nether-horror stories.On a hot summer day a young couple travels by train to the town of Bennington in Vermont, where Fred Nemser (Logan Lerman) is waiting for a teaching position at the local women’s College. In the way of his freshly wife, rose (Odessa young) reads the short story “the Lottery” is about how in a small town one of the residents regularly, on schedule, stone. This story, published in the New Yorker in 1948, and brought its author Shirley Jackson instant fame, her worries, scares, and excites, and rose relieves tension and pushed her husband in the carriage toilet and having sex with him. Whether young husband a little more closely, he would wonder why literary horror cause his wife such a reaction, but he’s too busy themselves. Rose can’t wait to meet with a writer whose gloomy imagination is so intriguing and fascinating.It was in the house, Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth moss) and her husband, Professor and literary critic Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), the newlyweds will live for the first time, until they find the Bennington their own homes. The very first meeting says that it’s a nice neighborhood will not be while Stanley overly friendly, closed surly Shirley greets guests almost hostile. And their house — a dark, closely lined with furniture and if seeking to strangle its own inhabitants — similar to the sinister mansion of Roman Jackson, “the Ghosts of hill house”. However, rose does not have time to recover, as Stanley tries with Fred not only stay, but to “watch over” the house and his wife, prone to mood swings and various nervous ailments. Of course, “supervision”, as well as washing, cooking and cleaning entirely fall on the shoulders of a young “little wife”, while the men lost at work, and Shirley painfully Wade through the text that will become the novel “Basalmic”, and seems to be increasingly losing touch with reality. Her character she withdraws with rose, which gradually becomes her friend, attorney of its secrets, the object of desire and almost her alter ego, a woman whose troubled inner world contrasts sharply with the appearance obedient devoted wife.The film, which is based on the eponymous novel Susan Scarfe Merrell, can be called a biopic rather arbitrary. Shirley and Stanley, of course, there was really and truly lived in Vermont, and the inspiration for the “Vesalia” really was real gonethe collision students of Bennington College Floors gene Walden. However, Josephine Decker, and writer Sarah Gubbins very liberties with the facts, focusing not on how to illustrate a biographical essay on the life and work of Shirley Jackson, and offer your own perspective on what life and the emotional litter is a growing art and how it subjugates not only their Creator, but to all those around him.The effect of immersion is achieved by combining hypnotically claustrophobic visual style (the operator Sturla Brandt Gravlin), in which images of everyday life from the early 1950s, replaced by the feverish imagination of the heroine, a restless soundtrack (composer Tamar-Kali) and bright actor’s works, especially Elisabeth moss. It closes in two basic lines: on the one hand, the relations of Shirley rose, risky but also liberating both women, on the other — toxic, cruel, injuring a partnership with Stanley, in which it is impossible to exist, but which it is impossible to break. Observation of these dangerous links is like reading the works of Shirley Jackson: very scary, but impossible to resist.
