The film Die My Love takes place mostly in a remote farmhouse. Tucked away amid tall grasses and verdant woods in rural Montana, it seems idyllic. But Grace (played by Jennifer Lawrence) appears uncomfortable as soon as she sets foot inside her new home. She flops over like a rag doll while her boyfriend, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), explores the building, which he inherited from his uncle. Months later, she and Jackson have a baby. Grace becomes a doting mother, but the house becomes the subject of her wrath. She demolishes a mirror, claws at the bathroom wallpaper, and smashes through a glass door. Something about living in this place is breaking her mind.

At first glance, Grace resembles the type of mothers who have become a dominant cinematic presence in recent years—women portrayed as

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