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This paper examines Onur Tukel’s 2016 film , a pitch-black satire that uses brutal physical violence as a metaphor for societal collapse and political apathy. Starring Sandra Oh and Anne Heche, the film explores how personal grudges can mirror the macro-violence of international warfare. : In recent years, the term has been
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The narrative follows two former college acquaintances, Veronica Salt (Sandra Oh) and Ashley Miller (Anne Heche), whose lives have diverged into opposite socioeconomic trajectories. Veronica is a wealthy, cynical artist whose career has stalled, leaving her reliant on her wife’s fortune. Ashley is a struggling housewife and mother, living in a cramped apartment and working multiple low-wage jobs to support her soldier husband. Their paths cross at a series of high-society parties, where repressed jealousy and political disagreements explode into vicious, clumsy fistfights. Each brawl leaves one woman in a coma, allowing the other to experience a bizarre reversal of fortune. When Veronica wins the first fight, she is inspired to create a series of violent paintings that make her a star; when Ashley wins the second, she inherits the trappings of Veronica’s former wealth. The film is structured in three acts, each punctuated by a prolonged, wince-inducing fight scene that resets the social order.
Tukel draws a direct line between the "catfight" of two privileged women and the "catfight" of American political parties. The two women are mirror images. They hate each other not because they are opposites, but because they are the same: selfish, entitled, and blind to the suffering of anyone outside their own bubble. Every time one "wins," the victory is hollow. Every punch thrown results in a lost job, a dead family member, or a stroke.