With Johnny Deep in rehab for alcoholism and Helena Bonham Carter becoming his new ex wife, Tim Burton seems to have decided it was also time for a change in style.

Big Eyes is a real story about emotional abuse told in a rather hilarious way. What insecurity can do to a person is indescribable. And when you pair a frail spirit with a manipulative seducer who skillfully belittles you while entangling you into his web, you might even end up losing your identity.

Amy Adams was the perfect choice for this role. As with the big eyes in Keane’s paintings, she has a mimetic quality as long as her eyes can reflect the sadness of the character she is performing, Paying closer attention, all the parts in which I have seen her perform have embedded this particular melancholia of hers. As for Christoph Waltz, who else could have given the necessary contrast in personality? His character goes absolutely overboard at the courtroom scenes, but hey, in my opinion, that was to reinforce the absurdity of the entire situation and the delusion caused by his own maniac ego. I loved it!

I was born in the 60’s, right about the time when Margaret Keane artwork was sold under her husband’s name. When I think of those days, when I think of current societies in which women are still struggling to just be, when I think of girls like Malala Yousafzai advocating for girls’ education, I feel thankful I live in a country in which I can not only be a woman but a woman with full expression of my self.