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==Summary==


"Mia's body is changing." A coming-of-age parable about a 15-year-old woman on the brink on a dramatic transformation who sees her whole world descend into turmoil and doubt.

==Details==
[[File:Bluemymind 2017film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Promotional image for ''Blue My Mind (2017 film)''...]]

* Release Date: 2017
* Country/Language: Switzerland, Swiss German
* Genres/Technical: Drama, Fantasy
* Setting: [[Modern]] [[Switzerland]]
* Runtime: 1 hr 37 min
* Starring: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller
* Director: Lisa Brühlmann
* Writer: Lisa Brühlmann, Dominik Locher
* Producer/Production Co: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Tellfilm
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDab7OSQh8 link])
* IMDB Page: ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6193454/ link])


==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: not rated (equivalent to an R)

The gore and body-horror are surprisingly mild for a parable about puberty, but the film does contain enough profanity, full-frontal nudity, teen sex, and drug and alcohol abuse to probably make it a tough sell as a family movie, at least for U.S. audiences....

===Tentacle Ratings===

A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian)

Could be taken as a different take on the usual [[Deep One]] horror story: it downplays the cosmic and body horror, and substitutes the anxiety, isolation, and turmoil of the horror of growing up. It's not necessarily incompatible with Lovecraftian horror, though it's a safe bet that the film-makers didn't even have Lovecraft on their radar when making this film, and resemblances are surely coincidental. Still, scenario writers wanting to try something a little different can surely make use of this film as inspiration for a different take on Lovecraft's [[Deep One]]s, who, after all, also go through a difficult transformation into fish-people upon coming of age....

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of
how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* Nick Allen at RogerEbert.com ([https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/fantasia-2018-hurt-our-house-blue-my-mind link]) (Contains reviews of two unrelated films)
* Rob Aldam at Backseat Mafia ([ http://www.backseatmafia.com/eeff-review-blue-my-mind/ link])
* Jeannie Blue at Cryptic Rock ([https://crypticrock.com/blue-mind-movie-review/ link])
* Brent McKnight at The Last Thing I See ([https://www.thelastthingisee.com/2018/05/siff-2018-blue-my-mind-2017-movie-review.html link])

==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==

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A teen's world turns upside-down as she begins a difficult transformation into a mermaid.
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===

* race: [[Deep One]]s

===Keeper Notes===

* Lovecraft's unreliable narrators tend to describe the transformation into a Deep One with the Innsmouth Look upon coming of age as a change into an inhuman monster, and perhaps friends and family of someone going through the difficult change would agree (certainly the stressed-out family and grossed-out friends of this movie would agree!), but the final transformation need not be a completely horrible thing, as suggested in the final lines of "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)]]": "The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn toward the unknown sea-deeps instead of fearing them. I hear and do strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror. I do not believe I need to wait for the full change as most have waited. If I did, my father would probably shut me up in a sanitarium as my poor little cousin is shut up. Stupendous and unheard-of splendours await me below, and I shall seek them soon... I shall plan my cousin's escape from that Canton madhouse, and together we shall go to marvel-shadowed Innsmouth. We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever." - HPL


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 Review Links:
-* Nick Allen at RogerEbert.com ([https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/fantasia-2018-hurt-our-house-blue-my-mind link]) (Contains reviews of two unrelated films)
+* Nick Allen at RogerEbert.com ([https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/fantasia-2018-hurt-our-house-blue-my-mind link]) (Contains reviews of two unrelated films) - ""''Blue My Mind''” boasts a few discomforting moments of body horror, especially as she tries to alter her body from its progression. ...  The script’s predetermined nature leaves the viewer colder than they should feel."
-* Rob Aldam at Backseat Mafia ([http://www.backseatmafia.com/eeff-review-blue-my-mind/ link])
+* Rob Aldam at Backseat Mafia ([http://www.backseatmafia.com/eeff-review-blue-my-mind/ link]) - "''Blue My Mind'' is a fresh take on the coming-of-age drama which uses the usual clichés to produce a unique slice of cinema. Brühlmann’s feature debut impresses with its ingenuity and willingness to take risks."
-* Jeannie Blue at Cryptic Rock ([https://crypticrock.com/blue-mind-movie-review/ link])
+* Jeannie Blue at Cryptic Rock (4/5 Stars) ([https://crypticrock.com/blue-mind-movie-review/ link]) - "''Blue My Mind'' is, therefore, a delicious mix of the self-discovery treatise – one in which our protagonist, like most youths, often wonders if she is normal – and a fairy-tale fantasy. The trick here is the balance struck by the film’s brilliant director..."
-* Brent McKnight at The Last Thing I See ([https://www.thelastthingisee.com/2018/05/siff-2018-blue-my-mind-2017-movie-review.html link])
+* Brent McKnight at The Last Thing I See (B+) ([https://www.thelastthingisee.com/2018/05/siff-2018-blue-my-mind-2017-movie-review.html link]) - "Luna Wedler delivers a bold, fearless performance as 15-year-old Mia. The new girl at school, she rebels against her overbearing mom and clueless dad, and falls in with a crew of bad girls... ...she undergoes a startling metamorphosis that would make Kafka proud."
 ==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==

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