A Woman Under the Influence (1974): When Love Isn’t Enough and Madness Becomes the Polite Excuse
I don’t know if it was insomnia, the urge to watch something “different,” or just my inner emotional masochist acting up, but I ended up watching A Woman Under the Influence. What started as a curiosity about a so-called cult film turned into one of the most uncomfortable, raw, and painfully human experiences I’ve ever had in front of a screen. The plot is simple — even boring, if you hear it out loud: Mabel, a housewife, has some "unstable behavior," and Nick, her husband, loves her but doesn’t