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what the beep is wrong with you people - SPOILERS*

posted 12 years ago by bluerainn
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i can't believe the rating of this film is so high, i can't believe the metascore is so high and i really can't understand what is it in this *beep* up movie that people like so much. this is one of the most perverted, sick, demented and weird movies i've seen. this movie is vastly moronic and strange. when i heard the ''meaning'' of some of the words like ''zombie'', ''keyboard'',''whore'' when i saw the ''boxing'', spitting ''blood'' scene, the whole barking stuff, the airplane *beep* etc. i actually laughed of how demented some people are to create something like that. Lanthimos is just another arty wanker amusing himself probably trying to preserve some deeply repressed nostalgia of his. the cat slicing scene really irritated me, i hope it wasn't for real, it'd be completely amoral to kill a cat for some *beep* like that. i understand the satire elements and ambiguousy but that doesen't overlap the fact of how *beep* up this movies is.
i felt like sharing my personal opinion since so many others did with whom i disagree, so i thought there should be atleast one negative opinion in the open regarding this film.

1/10.

I have to return some videotapes.

[–] YuunofYork 7 years ago

Of course the cat scene is not real. As for 'sick', the film is not advocating the parenting strategies of these characters, nor are we supposed to take it at face value. The parents in the film are a metaphor for authority, in all its forms. Father doesn't know best, etc. I should think this was pretty obvious, but apparently not. Why did you choose to take it literally? The fence, the lies, the 'corrupting' (but really freeing) influence of sex, these are on-the-nose symbols. If you do understand this is satire, what's the problem?

The invented language in the characters' household is another example of control. By re-coding the language of the outside world, the children will be ill-prepared to deal with it; it is another way to keep them children forever. Other allusions to the idea that power structures can corrupt the way you think and interpret the world, such as through language, are clear (like 'double-speak' in 1984, for example).

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what the *beep* is wrong with you people - SPOILERS*

what the beep is wrong with you people - SPOILERS*