Night bitch VIOLENCE/GORE 6

– A woman hears dogs howling and barking outside at night; she leaves her house, sniffs the ground and digs the ground as we see her transform into a dog (she grows a muzzle, fur and tail) and runs off into the night; he sees a rabbit and says that his neck will snap; the dog pounces on the rabbit and kills it (we see it buried in a hole). The cat leaves the house and when the dog sees it, it grabs it and beats it; later we see the cat dead on the ground with blood pooling under its head. A woman gives birth and we see blood on the floor as she pushes and screams.
► A woman finds a lump on her back and says ouch when she presses it; she sterilizes the needle and sticks it in causing the white goo to pour out and when she puts her finger under the flesh she pulls out a piece of hair (like a tail). A woman chokes on a bite of kale and spits it out (we see the kale coming out of her mouth); she abruptly stands up startling the other people at her table and growls and barks at them before storming out of the restaurant.
► A wife yells at her husband when he makes noise in the house, saying, “If you wake him up, I’ll blow your throat.” A boy wakes up in the night and his mother slaps his father on the arm to wake him up to help the child sleep. A woman tells her husband that she does everything she can to take care of their young son by herself four days a week, every week, and the man doesn’t seem to understand the problem. The husband advises his wife to create some structure in her life and says, “Structure is the key to mental health. Happiness is a choice”, and the woman imagines slapping him hard across the face. The husband complains to the wife that they have run out of milk, and she gets upset when he doesn’t understand how this could happen. A woman asks her husband to get her tampons because she is expecting the start of her menstrual cycle (using a graphic description); we see a pool of blood and run down the shower drain. A young man wakes up in the night and his mother finds her husband playing a video game; she tells him to go help the child to sleep, and he reluctantly does so. A husband expresses concern about his wife encouraging their young son to act like a dog; he gets upset when he realizes that the child and his wife are eating from the dog bowl. A husband and his wife argue about their relationship and the wife’s desire not to “get lost”; he says he feels trapped. The wife tells her husband to separate.
► Several dogs howl and bark outside the women’s home in several scenes; she goes outside in one scene and the dogs jump on her growling and seem to bite her when she falls (this is apparently a dream and she is not shown with injuries). Several dogs carry dead animals and place them on the woman’s doorstep (we see bloody corpses). Three dogs (seemingly strays) approach a woman in the park; they sniff her and are very kind; she and her young son run with the dogs when the dogs leave. A young man carries a bloody dead rat into his house and runs outside where we see several dead animals with blood in a pile. A woman leaves her house at night, drops to all fours as she walks away, and we hear growls and snorts as she runs into the shadows. A young boy is asked his name during a library story and responds by yelling the F word 5 times to the shock of other children and parents in the area.
► A man serves a young man a large plate of pasta with sauce; the child stands up in his chair and throws the plate on the floor, breaking the plate and splattering the pasta across the room. A young man cries and protests when it’s time to sleep (consecutive); he stomps his feet and yells at his mother when she tries to get him to calm down. A child cries loudly during a children’s story in the library with other children. A woman scolds her child for grabbing things from store shelves and putting them in their cart.
► One woman tells several other women, “I killed a cat,” another woman describes letting a fish die, and another says she left the birdcage door open so her pet parrot would fly away. Women describe the sounds they made during childbirth as “pure animal”. Several women talk about being gods and being so powerful because they create life. A woman asks the librarian for a book on the mythology of women and motherhood; the woman describes people who have the myth of “bird women” and the woman imagines herself floating in the air among the trees like a bird. The woman talks about women who delay their greatness. The woman says she is worried about another child and says people in Germany get 2 years of paid maternity leave. The man picks up his pet and says to throw it on the roof; the woman says she wants the cat to be grabbed by a bird and lowered into a deep quarry. The woman says that the first act of a child is violence against that which created it.
► A woman worries that her son will get hurt when he looks away or is in another room; she talks about how he stuck a fork in an electrical outlet. A woman remembers her youth and talks about her mother’s death; we see a conversation where the child is afraid that her mother will leave and not come back. The woman remembers a scene from her childhood in which the woman prepares a mixture in a large pot by adding herbs and a chicken leg while reciting phrases in an unidentified language.
► A woman says to another woman, “I’m not doing well.” The woman imagines saying that she is “stuck in a prison of my own making” and “Now I’m stupid and I’ll never be smart or thin again.” A woman is shown doing the same things over and over, every day while taking care of her young son. The woman describes how she cries every night. A woman’s voice says that she does not enjoy the company of other mothers. The woman feels like “the worst mother in the world.” The woman talks about being hormonal. The pregnant woman says she threw up that morning from the smell of garbage. The woman describes the children and that “you squeezed them and they will (scatological term deleted) in your face without batting an eye”.
► People are eating in a restaurant, and one person is breaking bones with his hands. A woman and her young son eat from dog food on the floor; the boy drinks from the toilet, and the woman is upset and stops him. A woman and her young son eat from a plate of food with their hands, then push their faces into their plates while eating and growling, then bark at each other like dogs while the people around them look worried and stare.
► The boy dips his hands and feet in paint and smears them on a large piece of paper, a nearby wall, his mother’s face, a diaper, then runs out of the room and paints all over; he slips at one point but it’s ok and the woman slips when she tries to stop him from leaving the room and she falls hard on her back (she’s ok later). A woman is horrified when she can’t see her young son in the park; she finds him nearby sitting on the ground playing and he’s fine.
► A woman puts her young son in a dog bed on the floor and puts a blanket over him; the child falls asleep. A woman crawls on her hands and knees with her little son on her back pretending to be a horse; he lifts the back of her shirt and says she’s “blurry.” The boy wakes his mother up by saying “poop”, and when she wakes up, we see that she is holding a pile of poo in her hand. A woman urinates in the bathroom while her husband stands by the sink (we hear a leak). The child sneezes, and the mother wipes his nose with her bare hand.