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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:36
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Since I'm on this "Cook, Thief" thing, here's a quote from the IMDB about the film:
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Let's say that you're an avid film-goer and you want to test your level of tolerance in terms of the type of bad taste, vile and disgusting screen images you can bear. Certain people would direct you to the zombie/cannibal movies made in Italy in the 1970s and if you took their advice you would indeed find yourself faced with some pretty unpleasant viewing material. However, such films are also very poorly made, with an emphasis on exploitation and somewhat shaky and grainy camera work. For an equally vile and disturbing film, made with considerably more skill and elegance (not to mention aspects of a Jacobean revenge play to please the intelligensia) look no further than The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. This movie is just as outrageous, nauseating and horrific as any Italian cannibal flick, but in a breathtakingly artistic way. |
That's pretty much spot on. Wait until you see the two naked people roll around in the truck full of rotted meat. Yum!
Here's another good IMDB quote:
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By the time I watched this film (at around the age of 15) I saw myself as a fully desensitised cinephile, having raised myself on a staple diet of horror and cinema violence since a very early age I'd found myself unmoved by the macabre for years. But this film stirred a disgust in me that I've not felt before or since, the violence too and degratation of pretty much every player in this gothic nightmare.
The violence isn't paticularly graphic but its driven home by the sickening relish seemingly taken by all involved. |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/usercomments
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MrFun
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of Iowa
Nov 2000
time: 23:36
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Originally posted by Arrian
My main criticism with the battle scenes was them showing essentially the same clip over and over, just with a different unit - marching up into battle. Not actual fighting, mind you. Just the marching, with a caption like "12th Mass Infantry" or somesuch.
Look, as a Civil War history buff, I can appreciate the coolness of knowing the order of battle for a given battle in the war, but it's NOT something that should go into the movie, ya know?
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Ok, if you're only quarrel is with the marching part of the battle scenes, I might be able to agree with you -- say, like 87.53% agreeement.
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