This move ties together skateboarding and her experiments as a ride Helen finds exhilarating. Why It Matters: With the same kind of swerving tracking shots that show Helen's joyful skateboard ride, the camera swerves into the stains on the toilet to a microscopic close-up of a tiny world vibrant with disease. But Helen plops her lower lips down, and rubs them around the full ring of the bowl. Just the idea of sitting on this would cause some people to seek a shower. The toilet seat she finds within is covered with mysterious stains, and stray pubic hairs. The floor is littered with debris, and glistening with a slick layer of unknown liquids. What Happens: In the Wetlands pink-band trailer, Helen earns her first gags when her bare feet take her into what appears to be the world's foulest bathroom. And while she may cave to contemporary shaving trends, this too had a dirty anecdote that involves a taboo sexual tryst. Instead she has hemorrhoids, a dirty secret she's quick to share, telling us she is not the lady society would wish her to be. No coveted ensembles or impossibly cool friends for her. The first tip to audiences that this is not your typical girlhood tale lies in Helen's hemorrhoids. But Helen takes your humped apple pie, and raises you a seminal slice of pizza. Why It Matters: Wetlands is being praised for being a movie that dares to give a girl's coming-of-age story the gross-out comedy treatment. We're spared a look at both of the above, but the drops of blood and this look of shock (above) are more than enough to jolt viewers. Later, their pain is made worse when a sloppy shave job slashes Helen's anus. She explains she has relentless hemorrhoids. What Happens: In the film's opening moments, Helen zings down a street on a skateboard, barefoot and picking at her butt. But when a shaving accident lands her in the hospital with an anal fissure, Helen strives to bring love into her life through a flirtation with a male nurse, and a childish scheme to reunite her divorced parents. Helen gleefully experiments with sex and drugs, but also makes her body a biological experiment, reveling in bad hygiene. The product of a broken home, Helen's teen rebellion is channeled against all that her mother holds dear, which means the sanctity and sanity of her vagina. Wetlands follows the rocky and, at times, repulsive journey of 18-year-old Helen Memel (the fearless, funny and flawless Carla Juri). I'll step you through the film's grossest moments to illustrate why they matter. Beneath thick, putrid layers of filth, director David Wnendt has made a compelling and complex portrait of girlhood. But beyond gross-out scenes involving menstrual blood, copious spurts of semen, and an angry (and literal) asshole, there's a purpose. If you want your stomach tested, Wetlands will not disappoint. If you've heard of Wetlands, you either know it because of the Charlotte Roche novel on which it's based, or because of the deeply disgusting content therein.
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