Synopsis
After accidentally killing a wild animal, Lily, wanders the war zone where men and women are killing each other. Desperate to get away, she comes across a hidden place where people live with a strange unicorn. The old woman in the house stays in touch with the outside world from their home, where they can actually hear the firing of cannons, through their radio, and feeds herself from the breast of another young woman. The brother and sister in this film show hints of incest, as it usually is with the rule breakers in many of Louis Malle's films, according to Deleuze. The two kill a falcon, which looks as if surrealist artist Max Ernst drew it, and smear its blood on their bodies. If you closely follow Lily's eyes and her body, you see her going through a maze of ways to finally end up in the place where the old woman used to be. Throughout the film it seems as if something will happen to Lily and maybe not, in the sense that it feels like your watching Alice in Wonderland, only this time that it's Lily who followed a unicorn. We call it a blue moon when there are two full moons in a month. If so, what's a black moon? With almost no audible directive lines in this film, there is also no answer to this question. According to mythology, the black moon is also used to describe Adam's first wife, Lilith, who had her sexual organs in her head and also struggled to deal with her abnormal intelligence. It is also said to be related to unicorn's eyes, which make the moon full or empty depending on the purity of desires people have in their heart. When the spirit of intelligence 'the snake' invades the girl's private areas the unicorn returns to feed from her breast. In the end, crosses over the world of violence and desire and reaches the world of Kabala. Still, the hellish reality remains lit somewhere. (SHIN Eun Shil)