What was the point of the Centipede?


I was overall pretty indifferent about this movie, I watched it for the same reason many did: There was so much hype about how shocking it was, the world essentially dared me to watch it and I complied.

I'm not going to watch any of the other films, to me it was pure weird shock and nothing really driving it. I'm not going to be one of those guys who goes on a IMDB board for a movie just to bitch about it: I'm just checking to see if a proper explanation of why the experiment with the humans (and dogs) was ever conducted.

Insane people conducting insane experiments usually have some sort of reason. I feel having a German play the doctor carrying out the experiment was a less than subtle reminder of the Angel of Death Josef Mengele who did unspeakable medical experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. He was a disgusting madman, but there was some kind of medical basis for many of his experiments. Sadly I remember reading his experiments really advanced understanding of human anatomy, but that's some uncited thing I read.

Anyways, getting sidetracked. The whole point in the first flick was to create a linked digestive track... which really wasn't a digestive tracked "linked" really. So it seems, and this is what prevented me from being too freaked out, the goal was to create the world's most digested poop. Was that it?

If "the point" is explained any further in any of the other movies, again, don't really want to waste my time watching the others films, but the lack of reasoning (which I guess could make it freakier) really hurt the movie, in my opinion. Seems the creator just thought one day, "It would suck to have someone's ass sewed to your mouth, *beep* in your mouth." Then made a film without putting any further thought into it.

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Thanks for the reply! I don't know why I didn't think of that, I should just read a plot synopsis for the other 2. I think that's all I'd really want from the other films. I'm sure I'll miss out on some disgusting imagery, which is the whole point right? But when the doctor is giving the rundown of what they're about to endure, the outline of the procedure, I half expected one of them to yell in desperation, "Why are you doing this?!" And for the doctor to go... "You know, I never thought of that... why am I doing this? I guess there isn't a point to it." And just let them go.

Well, not really, but as a doctor, regardless of how demented he is: I expected there to be some merit to his "work." Something he was looking to discover something beyond "I wonder if I can sew someone's mouth to someone's *beep* Guess not. I do believe I will check out a synopsis of II and III though. Thanks again.

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He wanted to create his own organism plain and simple.

"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine

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Do you really want some logical explanation out of this movie? Dumdass.

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I feel it was his art. Someone who is mental expressing himself. Remember he said he doesn't like people.

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Curiosity. He was a surgeon, thought to be a Nazi, and his dog creation died. He actually wanted to see if it worked with humans?

I mean do scientists not do that now days? Do something on a rat,then a monkey, and then try it out on a human?

So taking all this into perspective, it would appear that he was probably lonely and needed a pet. He was a scientist and so also wanted to create something on a larger scale. This would fit that.

If you want a realistic definition of it, the director was just playing around. He even stated that he came up on the idea by reading up on experiments in Nazi Germany and the fact that he hated rapists so much that he wished he could sew their mouth on a truck driver's anus.

You choose why you think the movie was created. I actually found it interesting, almost scientific. Totally uncivilized, but good to know as well.

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and the fact that he hated rapists so much that he wished he could sew their mouth on a truck driver's anus.



Haha, see THIS is I think what I was looking for, and what I assumed. The premise is so thin, that I got this impression. That it was conceived as a far fetched punishment for someone. Because the "science" behind this really is, can a person eat the *beep* of a person who ate the *beep* of someone? The answer it seems, is NO! ha. I guess there was some rearranging of bones and stuff, but not very sciencey.

It's kind of funny, if the victims of the surgery were all rapists or pedophiles or some other kind of detestable person: This movie would have been perceived completely differently! As a social commentary, the movie would possibly be a bit more relevant. I think a lot of people do want some kind of horrible punishment for scumbag sexual predators.

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It says in the trivia of this movie section. Of course, anyone can write those so I do not know if it was true. Then again, his third movie of this series dud have prisoners in the human centipede. So there you go. Make what you can out of that.

I honestly think you could survive off someone else's crap; however, this movie shows that slowly, the third person is going to die. In fact, she was used as a poop bag. Then of course, the 2nd segment would die, until the first is left (obviously).

Science says that poop still contains nutrition not absorbed by the body. The body is not 100% efficient. It may have some validity.

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Even if this is acurate, after the second person in the cycle ate it there is definitely nothing left. If we 're eally want to discuss this, in order for this to work they would have to switch shifts.

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The third one was exactly what you ask for.

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That's exactly what I disliked the most. There was no point at all.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language

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ditto , one of the stupidest premises for a movie ever

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