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Incantation (2022)
There’s a dynamic in Incantation that I found interesting: in the exchange between Ruo-nan (Hsuan-yen Tsai) and her psychiatrist during flashbacks, the psychiatrist suggests introspective methods for Ruo-nan to counter her “fears.” The psychiatrist believes that what Ruo-nan was experiencing were visual manifestations of the mental images conjured by some trauma. A scene ultimately summarized…