'Nocebo' Trailer + Poster

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A fashion designer (Eva Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Mark Strong) - until help arrives in the form of a Filipino nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth

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[doubtmars]

Um. Why? The premise of the story makes me cringe.

[purpleflwr]

Yeah, it feels ableist to me

[deerlike]

I was going to say it comes across as a bit racist? Like oh, the Filipina maid uses "folk healing" on her and of course that reveals the demon in her that Western medicine couldn't find.

[doubtmars]

I don't trust white people creating these sort of characters for POC.

[anterrabre]

That's exactly the vibe I'm getting. I hope for its sake this movie is more clever than that.

[noodlecookie]

Yeah MTE. I'm sure they're going to promote this as some kind of 'social commentary' thing, 'the audience has that stereotype and we ~challenged~ it', blah blah blah.

[wellalr1ght]

Right? Sounds like the ole magical-healing-poc trope 🙄

[flyfingers7]

omg yes, i was like "magical healing Filipino?" that's new!

[deerlike]

It also comes across as "look at this Filipina woman practising her spooky 'voodoo' on this white woman!"

A "magical healing/cursing POC" trope

[purpleflwr]

It does that but also make people who actually have invisible diseases are liars. Like nope, you’re not sick. You just have a demon inside of you.

[automaticpeople]

Ableist?

[purpleflwr]

Yeah, a lot of people with auto immunes often times go years without a proper diagnosis by a doctor because people don’t believe them. This I feel like almost is making that the case with her character looking like she’s sick but not actually might be. Idk, I just don’t feel right with it.

[automaticpeople]

I thought it was just a supernatural horror, where she’s possessed or cursed or something like that. Idk I can’t watch the trailer.