Downloading Nancy - 2009 * *

The first cut is not always the deepest.

This film is based on a really gruesome and disturbing story of a lady from America, who four years ago advertised on the internet for somebody to torture and murder her. They did.

The main character in the film, Nancy, is a self-harming, sado-masochistic housewife, whose boredom with her husband (played excellently by Rufus Sewell) leads her to run away into the arms of the man she strikes a friendship with on the internet. She has started a depraved cyber relationship with this man and they spend days at a time emailing about different forms of torture they would like to perform on each other and which ways she would like him to eventually kill her. There is no doubt that Nancy is a very mentally ill person ( she can't even get through a whole counselling session without rushing to the bathroom to self harm) and whilst she gives herself freely to this stranger I cannot help feel sorry for her that she allowed some man to take advantage of her this way. This film definately doesn't shy away from taboo subjects and I think I didn't like it because it made me uncomfortable (the acting was brilliant.)