Does anybody understand why - thru the whole movie - they are talking about "The Ritual". I kept waiting for them to turn into some kind of monster or something after the clocks went off and they hadn't ate anyone yet. Was there supposed to be something more going on here or am I just reading into it too much?
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Where did you get "Art House" from this film or its production?
Art film - a motion picture made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit, often of an experimental nature or having an unconventional or highly symbolic content, aimed typically at a limited audience.
Aesthetic reasons? Nah, didn't look all that great. Experimental nature? Nope, been done before. Unconventional? Highly symbolic content? No...
Is it because it's foreign, you call it an art house film?
We've met before, haven't we?
Are you aware that the guy who said it was an arthouse film was attacking the film?
And it has not been done before in this particular way. It really depends how you look at the movie.
For me it meant that they were just humans trying to survive in society, not to be seen as monster we are what we are, cannibals with their own problems and *beep* i would say that the commercial version of this but not really commercial i would also consider it kinda artsy ¨the devils rejects¨ I´d rather just loop that ending is so perfect. This movie was interesting to watch, the only good actress was the mother, the hookers were lame but funny i guess.
They never got to perform their ritual. The whole story is heavily symbolic and you have to understand what it's about. Their family household was the horrific consequence of systematic denial. The 'ritual', like all those orderly ticking clocks represent their artificial attempts to adhere to an unnatural identity (what could be more unnatural than cannibalism?). Everyone in the family is terrified of facing themselves and they are invested in a systematized, ritualistic behavior that allows them to pretend to be otherwise than they really are. Because the balance of things was upset when the father died, Alfredo's unwillingness to pretend makes it impossible for the 'ritual' to proceed as planned. The mother's claim at the end that the ritual is more important than their lives reveals that she is so invested in her denial that she'd prefer to die or lose her family than to lose the pretense.
"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."
What is it they are denying?
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"Den Gleichen Gleiches, den Ungleichen Ungleiches."
What is it they are denying?
The daughter is denying that she is becoming like her mother.
She thinks she's pathetic and will ruin the family (she's right) so is pushing alfrado to take over and do what needs to be done which coincidentally is what she and her mother can't do hence the ordering of her brothers just like her mother.
Well... catholic people go to mass every weekend to church, you know?
Tell me, have you ever met Jesus fanatics who turn into Godzilla just because they couldn't go to mass earlier that day?
Nooooope. That's correct. That and the fact that they were real monsters already.
You're suppose to just figure it out. It's what writers who do when they think they're being clever by getting you to think about something when all they're really doing is outsmarting themselves and doing harm to their movie.
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I never said I didn't get it. I was just making a statement, effing smart-ass.
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