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This is the sequence that earned the film an R-rating and walk-outs at Sundance. But why include it? Natali has argued consistently that the scene is the logical endpoint of the film’s themes. Clive and Elsa conflate parenthood with ownership. Dren, denied agency, expresses rage through the only biological imperative it understands: reproduction. The scene is not gratuitous; it is horrifying because it is the inevitable consequence of creating life without ethics.

Noemi, in short, made a second skin.