The coming-of-age film "Belly" is told in what could be described as 'gruesomely beautiful detail'. In an interview on Motionographer, Julia Pott explains that the idea derived from "the cross-over period between going to sleep in back of the car at night, then seamlessly waking up in my bed the next morning. Then I got too old and heavy and was woken up by my parents, forced to trudge upstairs, brush my teeth and put myself bed. I remember being acutely aware that I had had things pretty good for a while, and now it was over."
"Growing up with a sister five years older then me, I spent a large period of my childhood feeling generally hard done by, ostracized and left out. I was so desperate to speed through the process of being kid that I didn't stop to appreciate what I would be leaving behind. Once it's been given up, it's gone. You can remember the sensation, you can feel it in the pit of your stomach, but you cannot get back there - hence the title, "Belly."
Pott goes on to explain that once she arrived on the theme of childhood, she began to indulge in memories of her own. "As a kid I think we more willingly immerse ourselves in the uncanny, happy to feel inexplicably weird. We consume horror, gore and casual death. I was absolutely fascinated by the idea of sinking in quicksand, being beheaded, ghosts...As I got older, I grew out of my kid-like immunity to the spooky - not so ready to feel scared, not wanting to feel it at all, in fact."
My first instinct was to question why the film was called 'Belly', what was its relevance? But that was taking it to literally. It was much more imaginative. Much more emotional.
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