Word: rosaleen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Riding Hood motif dreams of Rosaleen provide the ostensible framework for all the werewolf permutations. We only rub against reality during the very wispy frame scenes that depict nothing much: Rosaleen breathes heavily in her sleep. Rosaleen's unconscious takes over, Rosaleen meets handsome men, Rosaleen meets hand-some wolf...
Only the first frame scene tells us a bit about Rosaleen's family background. At the beginning of the movie, as Rosaleen sleeps, her sister calls her a "pest." Rosaleen twitches a bit so when her sister gets mauled by a pack of ravenous wolves early on, the vindictiveness of Rosaleen's character suddenly surfaces...
...THIS IS ALL we ever find out about the real Rosaleen. Interestingly enough the movie strives to philosophize on the nature of reality. At one point Rosaleen, who learns not only stories about lycanthropy, but the appropriate methods of recounting them, reveals this facet of the movie as the she begins yet another wolf tale, "Maybe...Maybe once upon a time...
...Rosaleen quite obviously concocts her own reality. But is this the real Rosaleen? Isn't the real Rosaleen still asleep? And how can we be sure that one is the real Rosaleen anyway? Jordan himself seems none too sure...
...shrubbery at his feet begins to lengthen to encircle and entrap him. We may not know much about the personalities of the characters by the end of the movie, but we certainly know why the devil scares them. The woods are both lovely, and dark and deep. Finally Rosaleen meets a lupine lover who may be the devil himself. He woos her in two scenes as superficially demure yet sexually suggestive as the near-naughty tale itself: "What big teeth you have...the better to eat you with...