I’ve ever seen occurs near the start and the middle of this movie. Seriously, it’s hard to describe the relentless French tongue mauling the couple get into which made me feel a tad nauseous.
Hope the actors a: Liked each other and, more importantly, b. had not been eating garlic before the take.
and with zombie like open eyes. eww!
shareThat was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen on film. It actually made my scalp crawl. I doubt I could watch it again!
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I don't come from hell. I came from the forest.
Definitely the most anti-erotic thing I've seen in a long time!
Also a perfect example of how a well-chosen image is more powerfully disturbing than graphic gore for the sake of shock. The kissing scene crawls right under the viewer's skin -- we can almost feel those horrifically interlocked mouths ourselves -- and our gut tells us that there's something very sick & very wrong here.
Disturbing scene indeed. But nowhere close to Adrien Brody humping that creature in Splice.
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A picture with a smile -- and perhaps, a tear.
I have to agree, but only because it's extremely rare for any kissing scene to actually be disturbing. It was intense yet completely emotionless, and there's the contradiction that's difficult to process while watching the scene. Usually the intensity of a kissing scene (or indeed any real-life kiss) is directly proportional to the feeling behind it, yes here it's like they're trying to suck each other's face off, while feeling nothing. That's what's disturbing about it, not the intensity of the kiss, but the lack of any feeling behind it.
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Agreed!
Both individuals seem so completely detached from the kiss, and each other that it creates a type of dissonance that agitates our minds, because we can tell something just isn't right.
I'll do business with a Red, but I don't have to believe one.
I thought it perfectly set the stage for the rest of the film. And by the time we see it again (and I have to admit, I turned away through most of it the second time around and was talking over it to try not to hear it as well!), it makes so much sense. What would a french kiss look and sound like if all the passion was taken away? If it was merely a study of what kissing is, not an actual kiss? Brilliant and horrible, the very soullessness of the materialistic, modern world around him (us?). It's exactly the image we need following the devastation of Ingeborg's anti-rejection weirdness.
shareIt was like watching two Pod-People kiss!
shareIt was a perfect starting point for the film becausethey were so mindless and unattached. It was pretty creepy!
shareGlad I'm not the only one. It just felt so wrong. Really creepy. Brilliant disturbing imagery in a brilliantly disturbing and thoughtful film. Haven't enjoyed a film this much since Brazil.
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