Cruel But Necessary

Cruel But Necessary is the story of a woman's journey of self-discovery and soul-awakening in the traumatic years following the revelation, on videotape, of her husband's infidelity. Her marriage over, Betty (an award-winning performance by writer Wendel Meldrum) becomes driven to discover other secrets that may surround her. And so Betty videotapes every aspect of her life during the gradual disintegration of her comfortable upper middle-class existence. The film is seen entirely from the viewpoint of Betty's video camera resulting in a "surveillance tape" that offers a voyeurism of the absurd.