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Our poor butcher's life is merde. Nothing has gone right since birth. He loses everything he touches and the film takes up at the last desperate chapter of his pathetic life.Trapped in an unwanted relationship, he attacks his pregnant wife and mother then flees to Paris to try to start again one last time. But, time and time again, he is foiled by acquaintances of his past who offer no help.
From the beginning this film is a non stop diatribe against life, society, and French culture. It is so dark and down it is humorous at first yet it begins to change as the story gets deeper. There is even a "warning message" on the screen giving viewers 30 seconds to leave theatre before the worst begins.
This movie is not "entertainment" but something darker.
Two bits of wisdom gleaned:
1) Life is a selfish act.
2) Survival is a law of genetics.
Follow Ups:
I wonder if intellectual French hate being French as much as intellectul Americans usually hate being American.
you probably know that but prefer to regurgitate party line.
I suppose you think Nazis were the only true Germans.
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foreign movies. The English make fun of themselves unmercifully, we make political statements, but the French seem to go for their own jugular. This was a great example.
Russian films poke fun at communism and post-communism, new Chinese films attack the "new" capitalism.
I'll stop there and let the blood drain from your ashamed countenance.
I don't call that entertainment. Actually, I originally typed a somewhat
earthier response, but decided this forum was too dainty for the unvarnished truth :)
1) Life is a sexually transmitted, terminal disease.2) Survival is a temporary condition between birth and death.
Things are actually darker than you thought. Even taking the long view doesn't help—the universe is running down to an eventual heat death. As Jim Morrison said, "No one gets out of here alive."
At least we can try not to make it worse along the way :-)
David Aiken
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