Her methods are misguided, yes, but the audience can still understand her motivation on a basic level.Įven though the timeline in Jagged Mind is intentionally messy, everything else is straightforward. Woodward’s character is particularly complicated and never just a one-dimensional seducer turned enemy. Both Billie and Alex are relatively complex and flawed, with neither one being entirely one half of the hero-villain dichotomy. This film, while indeed plot driven, works in suitable studies of its two lead characters. The Little Haiti backdrop is also no coincidence there is an otherworldly component that helps the film stick out from the crowd.Ī traditional sense of mystery is difficult to achieve with this type of story, although Jagged Mind is less about the puzzle and more about the puzzle solver.
Rather than Billie being kept totally in the dark about her significant other’s sinister activities, she is active and gradually informed in spite of her temporal imprisonment.
Of course, this film gets creative when finding a new and unusual way of keeping its victim unaware and vulnerable. In these scenes, the film’s sharp editing and abrupt transitions do a lot to communicate Billie’s confusion as well as delay the inevitable.Ĭlassic erotic thrillers would normally be the blueprint for Jagged Mind, but the story fits in better with vintage gaslighters. Billie experiences these sudden flashes where Alex acts out of character one moment, only for things to go back to normal the next. While they seem to be very much in love, something feels off about their romance. Relationship woes and memory loss plague Billie lately, yet her luck seems to change once she meets Alex ( Shannon Woodward ). Billie is clueless apart from a troubling sense of déjà vu, however viewers will quickly figure out what (or who) is behind this strange malady.
The audience is thrown in head first as the main character, Billie (played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers ), almost immediately experiences another blackout. Unlike other thrillers, though, this one features a time loop. Or more accurately, the person they are obsessed with. Much like its basis, Morgan’s short film First Date, Jagged Mind shows the lengths some people will go to to be with the person they love. The film approaches its weighty topic with urgency and graveness, but the distinct genre elements make everything more digestible. Not only does the film focus on a lesbian couple, Kali and writer Allyson Morgan broach a subject rarely seen in queer cinema: domestic abuse. Kelley Kali ’s Jagged Mind is a unique kind of erotic thriller.
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