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What the hell!!!??

posted 17 years ago by leemariejr
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This is the last so-called psychological thriller w/ French subtitiles for me. Hell, Cache was bad enuff(sic).

'Scuse me but did I miss som'n between him going out and coming back into the room and then his wife was there? If the point was to twist my mind into a knot then they got me.

It actually fell apart for me early on when I say why does he not show his wife one of the several pix he has w/ the mustache. Then the ending. What is this world was that all about?

Can someone explain to me wha' the hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THat's it, no more , to think I actually sat up and watched this waiting for some kind of payoff.

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[–] bruce-129 17 years ago

It may be about all that stuff you say ... but this is a movie to remove
all your illusions and leave you with nothing but the desire to end it all.
Ugh ... it was awful. Only a masochist and a nihlist would find this movie
unsatisfyingly satisfying.

[–] TheWanderingFish 17 years ago

Only a masochist and a nihilist would find this movie unsatisfyingly satisfying.

I have nothing to say, I just thought this was a terrifically funny and entirely silly quote.

(As he puts in the movie he takes whip off wall and starts hitting self repeatedly while laughing at the futility of existence.)

"Or perhaps it's not overrated"

[–] coprogirl 17 years ago

I think that nihilism is vastly underrated.

"'Scuse me while I whip this out"
Blazing Saddles

[–] LTUM 15 years ago

F---- metaphors. i'd rather have a movie.

besides, it can be well communicated to teh viewer and still have metaphors.

ie the desries dexter. never leaves the viewer in the dark

[–] zombierasputin 17 years ago

Obviously you didn't sit up and wait for payoff. You fell alseep, during the interesting portion. Get over it.

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[–] valis1949 15 years ago

It might help to know that Emmanuel Carrere is a fan of the science fiction author, Philip K. Dick. In fact Carrere is co-author of a book about Dick called,
I AM ALIVE AND YOU ARE DEAD; A JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF PHILIP K. DICK. Most of Dick's work concerns the loss of identity and the examination of Reality. And, without a doubt, this is a central focus in La Moustache.

Excuse My Dust...

[–] Kalamata 15 years ago

For me the film was simply too obtuse, too self-consciously trying to be about identity. The cheat was that he never sat down and said to his wife, look, here I have a moustache and here I don't. Even the lady in the photo booth could see that he had had a moustache at an earlier time. That kind of a cheat is infuriating because it fails the audience at a crucial juncture. That is why I call it a cheat. A better film, in my opinion, is Reconstruction by Christoffer Boe starring the gloriously hot Maria Bonnevie. If you want to explore the nature of reality and hallucination or "unreality", try this one. Might take a couple of viewings.

[–] zurichpoet 15 years ago

I watched it again with my movie gal pal who is more knowing about these "identity" films than I, and the only conclusion we could arrive at about the ending was the director wanted a free vacation included in shooting the movie, hence the final foreign location.

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[–] mp234003 15 years ago

I though this movie had potential at the beginning but it lost me after a while. Didn't like it, didn't really understand it either.

[–] bjorkwrist 12 years ago

"so-called psychological thriller w/ French subtitiles for me."

were the subtitles in French? or English? did you dub it to english and watch it with French subtitles?

Thanks for the thoughts, now lets all go watch Transformers 3 and How Does She Do It? you coward.