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love the gallows humour of that train track scene and its aftermath


devastating comedy! great stuff, that would probably have to be one of my favourite cinematic scenes ever.

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I agree. The moment he started down the steps into the tube station, I started laughing and laughed all the way through to his "zombie" self straggling down the street. It's morbid, but so beautifully done--and then, the topper--he's dropped at Anne Britt's house! So often I find this kind of idea-driven foreign film to be poorly executed, but in this case, everything seems perfect.

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I thought it was even funnier when upon his return to his first lady friend, with him looking like a zombie, she calmly tells him that they were going go-karting the coming weekend, to which he then replies, "Go-kart"?, looking at her in a puzzled fashion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oW3gDnkra8&feature=youtu.be&a at about 1:40

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Was also kind of terrifying. How many trains ran over him?

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I'd have to watch it again to know, timlin-4, but I don't think I would be able to count. I did sort of turn away through some of that...didn't want to miss anything, but it was pretty gross.

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It was gross. Turning away does nothing to hide the sounds of bone crunching and excruciating trauma. I counted at least four trains. It was oddly comical.

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There were many moments like that. When he slices off his finger and starting shouting 'ouch' it takes a while for anyone to appear and when they do a woman tells him he can't remain sitting there. I thought 'but he's bleeding'!

The best scene for this humour that I've seen was in Noi the Albino - it involved a large pan of blood. Highly recommended.

I'm scared of the middle place between light and nowhere

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