If you can't find a friend . . .

SAD MAY

When I was in Valdivia, I saw a film that had a great effect on me. With a little name, but with a very, very great sentence, what justifies the denouement of this film, MAY is the history about a girl (May Dove Canady) with a lazy eye, what prevent May from make friends.

For this reason, she has very few social interactions with people throughout her life. Nevertheless, she has a doll, her only “true friend”, that her mother made in and then gave to May for her birthday. But May can't take her out from its glass box, because “she’s special”.



May knows Adam, a mechanic, by which she feels a strange attraction… she like his hands. In the course of the film, May is meeting new, but, simultaneously, it is discovering that there are totally no perfect people, but only “in parts”.

Finally, and taking little from good from each person, May constructs her own “perfect friend”, with which the main phrase of the film is retaken, phrase that gave it her mother when giving to her to Suzie:

“If you can't find a friend, make one”

May isn’t a typical horror movie that recounts a morbid and bloody history, but sometimes is a dramatic story and a very romantic movie too. The difference is in the mind of May, with a sad childhood; but also in the search of friendships and, perhaps, also of the love.

This film is one of the darkest, saddest, most disturbing movies I have EVER seen.