Good Intentions
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TITLE “Good Intentions” by Anna Mantzaris*
STUDIO/SCHOOL Royal College of Art
Anna Mantzaris’s Royal College of Art graduation film Good Intentions shows what happens when guilt takes over our lives, hinders judgment and paralyses actions. While the director chooses to focus on an extreme situation, a hit and run, the feeling of overpowering guilt, irrational behaviour and that uncontrollable suspicion that everyone around knows about our mischievous deeds will be familiar to many of us.
With her signature style of mixing humour and horror, Mantzaris teases out the idea that facing the ugliest truth can be a much better way out than descending into agonising thoughts and obsessions.
