The film is one long horror. I noticed those who like this
piece of filth really enjoyed the cat scene. That speaks volumes
for the nature of your minds, guys. Dutch people liked it because
they are crazy anyway. This film was so depressing and so bad that
even Ginette Reno the famous Quebec singing pop star who starred
as the mother has bitterly regretted her playing a role in this.
A shameful exploitation and all who participated in this deserve
censure.
This movie started with an "unspeakable" act over a bunch of in Italy picked tomatoes, heading for export to the USA (???) but it actually took place in Montreal.
I can imagine that after how this movie started, and the subsequent ICKY consequences of the unspeakable acts of the disgusting Italian picker.... No ONE would ever be willing to get close to an Italian tomato again or to Montreal, ha ha.
Just kidding.
However, this is one of the most mysogenistic, ugly, depressing movies I have ever seen. And I would tell anyone who hears about it or sees it announced in the TV schedules to go bowling that night - or see THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
Ah f++k it dude, let's go bowlin'.
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"I agree. I saw it a few years ago but turned it off immediately. And then I saw it on TSPDT's top 1000 list and didn't remember having seen it before. I saw it again today and it's bloody awful. Truly one of the worst and sickest films ever made, if I have to tell the truth."
If you have to tell the truth? Are you admitting you normally tell lies? Anyway, just kidding about the cliche but anyway........
If you are turned off by the material in the movie, I'm afraid you are missing the point. Personally, I think this is perhaps one of the greatest films of all time. Time Magazine even put it in their top 100 of all time. Sure, it's got disturbing material in it but there are reasons behind the madness. If you look at the way the scenes are constructed while ignoring the actual subject matter that you find offensive, you will see that Lauzon was a genuine genious. The movie raises the art of filmmaking. 99% of movies don't do that. This one did. The material in the movie is disturbing, sure. But it's reality.
You said you turned it off immediately. Did you even finish the movie the second time around? I think a lot of people are disturbed by this movie because Lauzon takes the viewer into uncomfortable territory. The first 15 minutes are actually very funny. But once you laugh, the director has you and he takes you to the other side of the emotional spectrum by the end of the movie. That is a master filmmaker. So, no, it isn't one of the worst and sickest films ever made. Quite the opposite. But I may be wrong.
My 2 cents.
Funny YOU should mention the cat scene. Give some actual insight instead of playing piggy back on other people's opinions.
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i do have to laugh at everyone here who suggests that anyone who doesn't like the film must, ipso facto, be in love with terrible schwarzenegger movies!
Really people, I just saw this film, and personally found it depressing and not of much interest. As a film studies student with a long artistic background, I would challenge anyone who suggested that my distaste with this movie stemmed from an attatchment to bad Hollywood films.
Can't we all just get along? Just because someone dosen't care for a movie you like, is no reason to assume they are artistically-depraved individuals. Nor is it any reason to assume that their distaste is a personal attack on you and your opinions! Perhaps all you that like it have simply had different experiences in you life, so the film touched you in different ways than it did for me.
"Really people, I just saw this film, and personally found it depressing and not of much interest. As a film studies student with a long artistic background, I would challenge anyone who suggested that my distaste with this movie stemmed from an attatchment to bad Hollywood films. "
Wait! Let me get this straight....
You are a film studies student with a long artistic background and you found this movie not of much interest???? I would think that of all people, film studies students would find this one of the more interesting films to study. To each his own, I guess.
When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
"Most horrible" first that's a bad formation of words . . . and secondly, go *beep* yourself myersam or whatever it was. I've said this on the TWBB board about people talking down films that fall into the category of "ART" some people just have unexplained problems with these films.
"The worlds a wonderful place and worth fighting for . . . I agree with the second part."
I wouldn't say it's the most horrible film of all time, but it's not particularly good either. It's a stereotypical "edgy" art film--pretentious and schlocky at the same time.
shareI totally agree. I'd rather see Lynch's "Eraserhead" - which i liked but would not necessarily want to watch again - 10 times in a row, than sit through this ill-conveived peace of wannabe-arthouse excrement again.
Fortunately i got to review it for a rather big german paper when it first crawled into cinemas - therefore i spared a lot of people an immense waste of time.
Besides: The fact that people actually compare this scheiße to a masterpiece like Die Blechtrommel (the tin drum) just shows that some would just consume any crap if it's hyped "arty" enough.
I for one really enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of The Tin Drum, which I also enjoy.
shareI didn't like the movie either but your review just has so many things wrong with it. "Dutch people are crazy anyway" is not a good selling point.
shareIt was a disgusting movie labeled as what? Black comedy, tragedy? Anyway most seem to like it, I personally don't get these quirky type of art films.
shareCanada has always struggled to make "normal" films and books. Not sure why that is. Other countries do it so effortlessly.
The most successful English Canadian film in terms of telling a "normal" story was the Brood which was not exactly normal either. Canadian films tend to focus on failure, disease, etc.
As for the cat scene--it has to be noted that in Canada, animal abuse is not considered a criminal offense (as I write, yet another effort to update Canada's criminal code on animal abuse--which hasnt been changed since the 1880s--I am not kidding--failed). Canada was founded by the fur industry.
In the 1980s Canada overhauled rules for films getting funding by the government. Anything considered unlawful like murder and theft could not be depicted--however--animal abuse is ok.
That's Canada.