Edge
This short, named after Sylvia Plath’s last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter – icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy. She is also a mother drawing her two children with her into this death‑in‑life. ‘Edge’ is the irony which is the poet’s defiance and it is the blade… how far can those controllers go with their instruments and armaments and still act as though our pieces and feelings can be stitched together again?
There is no illusion of the woman’s “resistance”. Yet in this theme of woman as medical and war guinea‑pig the silent scream becomes audible in lines of poetry and song.
– Sandra Lahire
Description Source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
