‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Review: Rose Byrne Gives a Tour de Force Performance in Impressively Sustained but Taxing Motherhood Nightmare
The primary reason Linda’s anxiety spirals like a whirling dervish is her daughter Delaney Quinn’s enigmatic, seemingly incurable illness. This girl, who remains unnamed, is mostly heard but not seen, except when attached to an intravenous feeding tube or dangling her feet from the toilet during floods in the family bathroom. The flooding extends to the upper floor, causing a significant hole in the downstairs living room ceiling that seeps strange substances and functions as a gateway to Lynchian images of the vast emptiness.