RABID GOAT 👐#Sleep is therefore less a horror film than an ideological vivisection. By literalising the return of the repressed in sleepwalking form, #JasonYu indicts a social order that mandates hyper-visibility, individuated accountability and incessant productivity, yet disavows the psychic debris these imperatives generate. The film’s bleak epiphany is that no exorcism—medical, spiritual or technological—can expel what is structurally required to remain unseen. https://boxd.it/aOrIPh
A ★★★ review of Sleep (2023)
The Domestic Uncanny Jason Yu’s feature debut "Sleep" appears, at first encounter, to be a tightly wound domestic horror film about a husband who begins terror-sleepwalking after the birth of his first child. Yet the picture’s true object of analysis is not sleep at all but the ideological labour demanded of the contemporary household. By staging the bed—capitalist society’s prescribed site of nightly “recovery”—as a space of unmanaged excess, Yu transforms a genre premise into a demonstration of how social contradictions seep into private life and return, literally, in the middle of the night. Yu photographs the apartment like a
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