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Longlegs’s Ending Does a Little Too Much Explaining
And that’s too bad considering that the film’s potent menace rides on the inexplicable.
Maika Monroe plays Lee Harker, an FBI agent whose target seems to take a personal interest in her, recalling Clarice Sterling’s relationship with Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Real serial killers like Ted Bundy and “Son of Sam” Berkowitz famously targeted women and young girls, and onscreen, crime movies and slashers have perpetuated the image of the vulnerable female victim. Women detectives stand directly against this trope, but there’s an element of self-consciousness to the dynamic; an uneasy awareness that, however hard you work to break out of these misogynist boxes, there will still be maniacs who, to quote Bundy, simply want “to cause great bodily harm to females.” This existential discomfort simmers throughout Longlegs.
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