The Cage

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<B>(Madness/Monkees/Sisters)                             6******skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Blood* *Violent* *Strong Language* *No Nudity* *No Sexual Situations* *Not Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1977/Color/99 Min./Wizard Video & Clouds Productions, Inc./Rated</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Karen Arthur (</B><I><B>A Bunny's Tale, Lady Beware, The Secret)</B></I></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Don Chastain</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Jules Chaikin</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Diana Young</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Karen Arthur & Gary L. Triano</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the play "Toi et Tes Nuages" (You and Your Clouds) by Eric</B></div> <div> <B>Westphal</B></div> <div> <B>Translated into English by Richard Cottrell</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Barry Gelber</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Ellen......Lee Grant (</B><I><B>Damien: Omen II, Shampoo, Valley of the Dolls</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Cissy......Carol Kane (</B><I><B>Annie Hall, Ishtar, When A Stranger Calls</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Zom.......Will Geer (</B><I><B>Dear Dead Delilah, Jeremiah Johnson, The Waltons</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>David.....James Olson (</B><I><B>Amityville II: The Possession, Strange New World</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Mafu......Budar</B></div> <div> <B>Will.......Will Sherwood</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: This tale of manic depression, incest, love, and dependency is at times funny, scary, and depressing for those who have witnessed anything like this behavior. Sister Ellen was a prisoner of her love and loyalty long before dependent Cissy makes it official by locking her in the cage. The use of self starvation as a female control mechanism, combined with the missing father figure and incest is dealt with deftly and compellingly. Carol Kane is delightful as ever and at times if you can believe it really scary. Likewise, Lee Grant, Will Geer, and James Olson are excellent. The restless natives motif of the drums is a nice touch on Ellen's foray out of her room and the wheelchair for the emotional cripple is also a nice touch. After an interesting beginning, however, the film loses some of its energy in scenes that are not short enough and maybe not always necessary. The drama also suffers a bit with the quick death of David whose torture or sexual coercion might have been interesting. Likewise, the lesbian incest motif didn't have to be so subtle. More in-depth discussion in these scenes could have helped explain the nature of Cissy's psychosis. As it is, we can only suspect several Freudian constellations, none of which is clearly developed. However, Cissy the emotional sponge overpowers these weaknesses in one of the more engaging dramas on the horror shelf. Why the hell does this movie have three titles?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Before his death in Central Zaire, a primatologist left instructions for his daughter Dr. Ellen Carpenter to look after her eccentric sister Cissy, a gifted artist, and to allow her to create her own space. Cissy now plays naked in the garden and sleeps in a hammock and does all she can to preserve her African youth. While Ellen works at her photo studio, crazy Cissy engages in rituals at the house and listens to incredibly loud music and elephants. Cissy expresses her desire to die so that she could talk to daddy. Ellen notes how quiet Cissy's monkey Mafu is and then rushes to find him dead. He is quietly buried in the Mafu graveyard out back where he will rest in the company of his slain predecessors. Cissy refuses to eat or drink until either death or Mafu comes to her. When Ellen ignores her pleas for a new monkey, Cissy uses her African knife to slit her wrists. When the Cissy's godfather/monkey agent, Zom, comes, Ellen's assistant/paramour David Eastman becomes jealous. Zom arrives with a loan Orangutan with the warning "Rough him up and he could be dangerous!" After dinner Zom and Cissy dress up in ceremonial garb which is a present from the pygmy tribe she lived with for three years. After they put her to bed, Zom announces to Ellen that Cissy needs psychiatric help, but Ellen insists that father would not have allowed it. She admits, however, that she is in love with her co-worker. The next day while Ellen trysts with him, Cissy decides in a fit that Mafu is spoiled and loses it when he picks up something belonging to her father. Matters become  worse when Cissy screams to Ellen that she knows of her man and Ellen blurts out that she needs her privacy and wishes sometimes that God would strike her dead. While Ellen bathes, Cissy beats Mafu to death with a chain. Zom declares "It's over. No more!" yet Cissy has returned to her sweet side and paints a primate using herself for a model. Zom insists she be committed for observation. They lie to Cissy that Zom can't get a monkey right now. Cissy retreats to her last bastion of control over her sister and coos, "You used to be so beautiful. You still are sometimes when you're naked with me. It's been a long time since anyone but me strokes your breasts." Bullethead David mentions that he loves Ellen. As Ellen leaves for a weekend photo shoot, Cissy refuses to speak to her but to assure that she'll be all right. Zom will check in and Ellen promises to call but Cissy says she'll neither answer the phone nor the door. Home alone, Cissy dons her make-up and lives her Africa life until bullethead David arrives to ask about Ellen. Cissy ropes him into sitting down and drinking wine. While he lies drunk in the hammock, she performs the flirtation dance and he follows her about until she leads him into the cage, orders him to submit, and chains him up in Mafu's cage. She asks about erections and becomes enraged when he mentions Ellen. She locks the cage behind her and draws her new "Mafu" a rare breed not in her Daddy's book. Cissy beats "Mafu Dave" with a ritualistic club and buries him in the Mafu graveyard. Finally Ellen arrives to a warm reception from Zom and Cissy and everyone is convinced that Cissy has never been better. The sisters drink wine and dance and sleep together in the hammock. The next day, Ellen notices David's car in front of the house. Cissy admits someone knocked this morning but that she didn't answer. Just then Ellen spies a drawing of David then runs to the hamper where she finds David's bloody clothes. Cissy vows "Ill get you dumb shit!" In the middle of the night Ellen steals away from the safety of her room where Cissy catches her in a net and then tells Zom on the phone that they're planning a trip. In actuality she is keeping Ellen in the cage where catatonic Ellen refuses to eat even a bite. Ellen intends to starve herself to death so that Cissy will be alone and be locked up. Cissy locks herself in the cage after Ellen's death.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>