This movie sets its own limits and then succeeds in breaking them. An ambitious project. The main character is attempting to transform himself a la Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment by committing himself to the creation of the most sublimely terrible act of which he can conceive. He will murder a woman who's just given birth - but not before he kills the baby right in front of the young mother's eyes. This culminating event actually serves only to introduce us to the realm of the truly surreal.
There comes a point in these sort of movies where explanation runs dry, where language itself becomes a barrier. Some things are too strange to be adequately described, like a strong LSD esperience. The director (Karim Hussain) did an excellent job of spotting that key moment in Subconscious Cruelty.
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