The Sub(urban)altern: Spatial and Temporal Refractions of Normativity and Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018)
Figure 5: Figure 6: Holly Andres, 2016 Aster’s narrative begins with the death of Ellen Taper Leigh, matriarch of the Graham family, whose funerary service is led by a seemingly ambivalent eulogy presented by her daughter, Annie (Toni Collette). Annie confesses her confusing and often times tumultuous relationship with her dementia-ridden mother, claiming that she was a private individual who held many secrets and never shared anything about her interpersonal relationships. A mother to thirteen-year-old daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) and sixteen-year-old son Peter (Alex Wolff), Annie spe...
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