Okay, I don't really deserve to comment on this film, as I walked out after half an hour. Here's why:
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In the first half hour, I was forced to watch 1) beautiful, depressed, self-hating woman slit her wrists with razor 2) fantasy image of same woman slit her throat 3) Rocco Siffredi's tumescent penis (okay, that wasn't so bad) 4) woman's mouth drip with sperm 5) image of boy throwing squashed baby bird on ground and stamping it to mush (it looked terribly real...where's PETA?!) 6) Outrageous comparison of Rocco's concept of female bits to smushed baby bird 7) full-on shot of female child displaying herself under a bush (perhaps they were made of wax to pass obscenity laws?) 8) boring scenes of woman offering to pay gay man she is obsessed with to "watch her" 9) Rocco sticking finger up said woman, then wiping her wetness on his hair (shades of Something About Mary?) 10) ridiculous pretentious French conversation about brutality and fragility 11) extended camera closeups of said woman's bush 12) VERY CLOSE close up of Rocco sticking his hand inside her...
Okay, I thought I was going to puke at this point, and I realized by this point all I probably had to look forward to was her pulling a tampon out or menstruating on him, or something involving feces, or fisting, or something like that. If the scenes had been leavened by some sort of interesting or meaningful dialogue, or was able to make me feel some sort of sympathy for the characters, it wouldn't be bad. I used to adore French films because they portrayed people, esp. lovers, realistically...running around naked, arguing, for example. Like the films by Rohmer, and that movie Betty Blue. But in the past few years I've seen Baise Moi, Irreversible, and now this -- and it's all just going downhill...schlock shock sex is all it seems to be now....If only someone would pay ME to watch it.
*************SPOILERS BELOW************
In the first half hour, I was forced to watch 1) beautiful, depressed, self-hating woman slit her wrists with razor 2) fantasy image of same woman slit her throat 3) Rocco Siffredi's tumescent penis (okay, that wasn't so bad) 4) woman's mouth drip with sperm 5) image of boy throwing squashed baby bird on ground and stamping it to mush (it looked terribly real...where's PETA?!) 6) Outrageous comparison of Rocco's concept of female bits to smushed baby bird 7) full-on shot of female child displaying herself under a bush (perhaps they were made of wax to pass obscenity laws?) 8) boring scenes of woman offering to pay gay man she is obsessed with to "watch her" 9) Rocco sticking finger up said woman, then wiping her wetness on his hair (shades of Something About Mary?) 10) ridiculous pretentious French conversation about brutality and fragility 11) extended camera closeups of said woman's bush 12) VERY CLOSE close up of Rocco sticking his hand inside her...
Okay, I thought I was going to puke at this point, and I realized by this point all I probably had to look forward to was her pulling a tampon out or menstruating on him, or something involving feces, or fisting, or something like that. If the scenes had been leavened by some sort of interesting or meaningful dialogue, or was able to make me feel some sort of sympathy for the characters, it wouldn't be bad. I used to adore French films because they portrayed people, esp. lovers, realistically...running around naked, arguing, for example. Like the films by Rohmer, and that movie Betty Blue. But in the past few years I've seen Baise Moi, Irreversible, and now this -- and it's all just going downhill...schlock shock sex is all it seems to be now....If only someone would pay ME to watch it.