Having spent all of my years of education from ages 4-18 in Convent schools and having had my first headmistress be a nun and having been taught by many nuns, I was interested to see this one.
Lets get this straight... an awful lot of nuns are cruel, nasty people. I'm sure we can hazard a guess as to why. I went to primary school in the days when 'The Cane' still existed and I received it 3 times at ages 9 and 10. Once for laughing at a poem I had to prepare to read aloud about a 'Blue Tit' , once for putting a dead bumble bee on a girls seat I didn't like (it stung her on the bum - I didn't know they could do that) and once for copying someone elses work (me bad). We had 1 teacher in the school who was a nun and the headmistress was a nun. My 3 canings came from these 2 women. One I learnt in later years was dismissed for cruelty to children.
Anyways I deviate, this is meant to be a review. I just thought I'd point out that as 'at odds' as the title maybe seems, it could be pretty spot on. These women are bloody bad tempered.
*** SPOILERS FOLLOW ***
So, we follow a nun through the movie (very slowly) called Sister Gertrude. Never have I seen a more glamorous, made-up nun in my life! She has had brain surgery and it is clear all is not well with her. She is addicted to painkillers and her behaviour just gets increasingly worse. She is cruel to the patients at the hospital they work at, even almost killing one by withholding essential medication. While she is reading some rather macabre facts from a book that seems to be about tortures, she grabs and stamps on an elderly patients false teeth which are in a glass. She thinks they are disgusting. This is actually very disturbing and I found it one of the most disturbing moments in the movie oddly enough... maybe because it could have been real. Seemed pretty nun-like behaviour to me.
She goes on to start a relationship with another (much younger) nun who doesn't seem able to keep her clothes on. She even starts to be cruel to her, commenting on her 'big floppy breasts flapping about' ,lol and calling her a whore, the worst kind of prostitute and forcing her to wear stockings she'd bought as a present. Scenes obviously to keep the men awake.
She later seduces a man and has, what looks to be pretty rubbish sex with him. No words are exchanged between them. She throws some eyes at him, shows some leg, he follows her home, they get it on, he finishes and leaves... so its that simple?? Apparently so!
As the movie continues, I am amazing at how some scenes are dragged out and how slow the story progresses, especially 1 scene of a crippled man crawling up a flight of stairs... it seemed to go on and on and on. Sadly he met his end when he got to the top, by means of a battering.
The movie seemed to wake up in the last half hour or so with a suffication with cotton for a rather randy old wheelchair bound guy, a cringeworthy death by needles to the face (including through the eyes), the above mentioned battering of the 'steps' guy and another battering of another poor guy.
I found myself start to feel sorry for Sister Gertrude as we neared the end of the movie. Like a complete 'tard I did think she was the murderer for quite a way into the movie, until the spate of deaths at the end, when the penny eventually dropped for me.
So what did I think? Well on the most part its pretty dull and VERY slow in places although it did have some sort of appeal I have to say.
You could do much worse than this one, but I wouldn't rush out to see it.
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