In Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries (a Canadian/American/Irish co-production), exploring adolescent girls’ friendships and self-harm in a boarding school setting, blood is out of place. It drips from the protagonist’s father’s wrist artery, willingly shed suicide; involuntarily tarnishes her nightgown as menstrual blood; falls on director’s china figurines nosebleed; pours libr...
