It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here again with...

Genevieve Kovsky.

Scott Tobias.

Kee Phipps.

In our last episode, we looked at the unsettling illness metaphor of Todd Haynes' safe in the many different ways it can be read today.

The film's chilly Kubrickian visuals and thoughts on the connection between mental and physical

illness make it an excellent match for Carlo Mirabella Davis's newly released debut film

Swallow, starring Haley Bennett as Hunter, the wife of a rich man whose expectations for a

photoperfect spouse managing a photoperfect household are stymied when

hunter starts obsessively eating small household objects. Her condition is called pika, and it's a real-world

syndrome where sufferers feel compelled to eat non-food items ranging from their own hair to dirt,

stones, sharp objects, or even less healthful things. The causes and treatments vary, but for Hunter,

the disorder seems to stem specifically from a need to control her own body. And when she finds out

she's pregnant, and her husband and in-laws try to cease control of her body, the problem escalates

sharply. Swallow has been billed as a thriller or a horror movie, and it has elements of both,

with a wide-eyed protagonist

initially fighting a nearly silent battle against her surroundings, which initially looks like

a fight against her own body.

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