Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film-school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen, long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point. Sissy Spacek's overacting would register only 2/10 in terms of horror, but it would score well on the laugh meter.
What did you want? I wanted you, Blue. // I'm sorry you paid the price for it. If I'd known, perhaps I... What? Not written it? No. You reminded people what happiness was... What childhood could be when everything else was broken. But your own childhood... Was wonderful. It was growing up that was hard. Who would have guessed that bear would swallow us up? Exactly.