The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Here's a fun one: an hour and a half of harrowing drama charting the physical and mental abuse of a young boy, Jeremiah, at the hands of his neglectful mother (Asia Argento), her white trash lovers, and her religious extremist family. Not exactly a barrel of laughs!The second film to be directed by Asia Argento, daughter of horror legend Dario, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things isn't concerned with a strong narrative, it's purpose merely to catalogue the atrocities poor Jeremiah endures at the hands of grown-ups, delivering the message that the world can be a messed up place where the innocent and helpless suffer the most.It's bleak, relentless and, above all, honest film-making, handled with surprising assuredness by Argento, who even manages to throw in some offbeat and surreal touches towards the end in order to illustrate the fragile mental states of Jeremiah and his mother. Some of these did, admittedly, leave me a little perplexed, especially the crying lumps of coal that bled (seriously, this needs to be seen to be believed!), some animated red crows, and Jeremiah being dressed as a girl much to the confusion of Marilyn Manson (and me).

I was glad that this particular story was fictitious but such cruelty does happen to boys by sadistic mothers & women. High female abuse statistics suggest that sexual abuse of females are way more prevalent than males. That is only so because male sexual abuse is not recorded world wide as females are. I'm glad a film finally came out exposing the truth that there are mothers & women out there just as evil & depraved toward sons/boys as fathers & men toward daughters/girls, opposing the societal feminist pseudo view that females are inherently kind & males are innately contemptible. But you wont hear me bullshit about how I've never had a problem with any male I've known or label all females fools that sicken me. The deceptive heart is a human trait, residing in every gender & race.

This movie shows a boy being mentally abused by his mother, being dragged away from a possible good and normal life for no apparent reason than selfishness of the mother. Unlike the plot says, the mother is 23 at that moment. The boy is emerged in an adult world of sex and drugs, void of proper education or relationships with kids his own age. I love boys, and I couldn't watch this movie because of the abuse. I couldn't watch this boys life being destroyed. I kept asking myself: why isn't he seeing that his mother is a bitch and he doesn't belong with her? But that is not realistic. At seven (in the beginning) when your mother tells you lies like she does, he is helpless. Only at the end of the movie, after reading some more, I found out that this is based on a book based on the real life of the author. That makes the movie more bearable (you can think: well, it DID happen like that), but in fact only MORE painful. If you like boys, don't watch this movie. You won't like it. That being said, the acting of the boys was very good. If either reads this: thumbs up, you are great actors!

Rented this film out of curiosity towards Ms. Argento's film-making. While the film got off to a shaky start, it quickly evolved into a well-crafted and creatively interesting piece of film-making. While the subject matter of the story itself is upsetting to say the least, it is very well handled. Clearly Ms. Argento has a knack for weaving a compelling and meaningful tale. It will be interesting to see what stories she chooses to tell next and what kinds of characters she will choose to play in her upcoming projects. Overall, this film is worth watching, but make sure you are prepared for some heavy subject matter as it doesn't pull its punches!