It's a film about death, but like the writing in the beginning tells us, there is no life that doesn't feed off of somebody else's death. But I don't want to go too much into detail with this boring symbolic stuff. Instead let's look at the things that make this movie a worthwhile watch.
I love the opening scene of the woman pissing into the grass in close-up. It immediately tells you what is about to come. We will get to see parts of people's lives that usually are hidden to us. Stuff we usually don't even get to see in movies.
The second pissing scene (5 minutes later) is even better. It has it all. Full pissing action in all its banal glory. A man taking a penis out of his pants - holding the penis and waiting for the urine to leave his bladder - a sniff - the urine uncontrollably shoots out of the penis' glans - urine running into the black nothing of the urinal - urinedrops dripping from the uncircumcised foreskin that hinders the urine from flowing in one perfect unity - the urine slowly coming to an halt until the spring is dried up - the man shakes it off a few times, which looks like jacking off a mini penis - he brings the fella back home.
A bunny being slaughtered. First a hit over the head while its ears are being hold and then a knife slits its throat. It slowly bleeds dry, jerks and quirks and obviously still is very much conscious. After this process the bunny's fur is being peeled off like banana peel, although you don't need a knife to peel a banana, of course. After that the bunny's eyes are cut off like buttons on a shirt. Its belly gets opened up and the bowels are being taken out. The dead bunny, which hangs upside down during this whole process receives a cut to the crouch and the testicles are being removed.
But all of this only plays in the protagonist's imagination. He longs for death, in a playful kind of way.
Apples are being taken off a tree. A different form of death. The man picking the apples accidentally gets shot into the neck. He dies at the scene. Death the way we know it.
A suitcase is being opened. It has a book and papers in it. It's raining hard. The stuff must get wet. Death in disguise.
A necrophiliac couple (the girl is a real honey) gets a decayed body to play with. The body basically is a very wet and juicy skeleton covered with crap and stuff. It's got a juicy eye, though. The girl (she's got a nice ass too) is visibly excited about her husband's gift and they go feel up the body real good.
They saw off a chair's wooden leg and the honey rams it into the body's crotch. It gets her all hot and bothered. She rolls a condom over the chair leg... pardon me... over the body's newly gained huge and super hard erection. Mrs. Honey drops her black saucy lingerie and sits on the erection. She kisses the corpse - her husband feels her up from behind - her breasts touch the corpse's chest - her tongue goes all over the dead man's face - then the man kisses its face and takes its eye into his mouth.
They sit up Mr. Dead and the girl's penetration continues. The eye falls out of Mr. Dead's skull and Mrs. Honey tries to catch it with her mouth. We get to see this sequence in slow motion so we don't run risk to miss it. Their intercourse almost looks like a dance but all this time Mr. Dead appears to be awfully stiff and apathetic.
The man gets a prostitute and they fornicate on a cemetery. The whore sits on a gravestone. He can't get it up because she is too much alive and moving and such. So he does what every man would do in this situation. He strangles the life out of her. Then the sex works for him real smooth. He goes off better than the average teenage boy goes off masturbating to Internet porn of fake celebrities.
The man nails a Jesus miniature onto a crucifix real hardcore style with a hammer.
The man takes a knife and rams it into his own belly. He lays on the bed and takes the erect penis out of his pants. As he rams the knife deeper into his torso the white stuff (spermatozoon) shoots out of the penis. One huge white fountain after another. The scene is intercut with the rabbit footage played in reverse. The bunny jerks and quirks back to life. The man pokes around in his bowels like a kid would poke around in a plate of broccoli hoping somebody would finally tell him that it doesn't have to eat it. The white stuff turns into red stuff (blood) and the fountains get even bigger. He didn't survive it.
The End
The film's most original idea seems to be that one way to overcome a phobia is desensitization by confronting ones fear. This method, for example, can cure somebody's fear of spiders. So the idea or the film's thesis is that you can do the same with the fear of dead bodies. After a short talk-show skit of a man talking about this the film doesn't explore this idea any further, though.
But you could argue that desensitization happens to us while watching the film. Maybe it will take some viewers' fear to ram a chair leg into a decayed body to have sexual intercourse with it. I'm not sure it worked on me but maybe it worked on you. Well, did it?
I love the opening scene of the woman pissing into the grass in close-up. It immediately tells you what is about to come. We will get to see parts of people's lives that usually are hidden to us. Stuff we usually don't even get to see in movies.
The second pissing scene (5 minutes later) is even better. It has it all. Full pissing action in all its banal glory. A man taking a penis out of his pants - holding the penis and waiting for the urine to leave his bladder - a sniff - the urine uncontrollably shoots out of the penis' glans - urine running into the black nothing of the urinal - urinedrops dripping from the uncircumcised foreskin that hinders the urine from flowing in one perfect unity - the urine slowly coming to an halt until the spring is dried up - the man shakes it off a few times, which looks like jacking off a mini penis - he brings the fella back home.
A bunny being slaughtered. First a hit over the head while its ears are being hold and then a knife slits its throat. It slowly bleeds dry, jerks and quirks and obviously still is very much conscious. After this process the bunny's fur is being peeled off like banana peel, although you don't need a knife to peel a banana, of course. After that the bunny's eyes are cut off like buttons on a shirt. Its belly gets opened up and the bowels are being taken out. The dead bunny, which hangs upside down during this whole process receives a cut to the crouch and the testicles are being removed.
But all of this only plays in the protagonist's imagination. He longs for death, in a playful kind of way.
Apples are being taken off a tree. A different form of death. The man picking the apples accidentally gets shot into the neck. He dies at the scene. Death the way we know it.
A suitcase is being opened. It has a book and papers in it. It's raining hard. The stuff must get wet. Death in disguise.
A necrophiliac couple (the girl is a real honey) gets a decayed body to play with. The body basically is a very wet and juicy skeleton covered with crap and stuff. It's got a juicy eye, though. The girl (she's got a nice ass too) is visibly excited about her husband's gift and they go feel up the body real good.
They saw off a chair's wooden leg and the honey rams it into the body's crotch. It gets her all hot and bothered. She rolls a condom over the chair leg... pardon me... over the body's newly gained huge and super hard erection. Mrs. Honey drops her black saucy lingerie and sits on the erection. She kisses the corpse - her husband feels her up from behind - her breasts touch the corpse's chest - her tongue goes all over the dead man's face - then the man kisses its face and takes its eye into his mouth.
They sit up Mr. Dead and the girl's penetration continues. The eye falls out of Mr. Dead's skull and Mrs. Honey tries to catch it with her mouth. We get to see this sequence in slow motion so we don't run risk to miss it. Their intercourse almost looks like a dance but all this time Mr. Dead appears to be awfully stiff and apathetic.
The man gets a prostitute and they fornicate on a cemetery. The whore sits on a gravestone. He can't get it up because she is too much alive and moving and such. So he does what every man would do in this situation. He strangles the life out of her. Then the sex works for him real smooth. He goes off better than the average teenage boy goes off masturbating to Internet porn of fake celebrities.
The man nails a Jesus miniature onto a crucifix real hardcore style with a hammer.
The man takes a knife and rams it into his own belly. He lays on the bed and takes the erect penis out of his pants. As he rams the knife deeper into his torso the white stuff (spermatozoon) shoots out of the penis. One huge white fountain after another. The scene is intercut with the rabbit footage played in reverse. The bunny jerks and quirks back to life. The man pokes around in his bowels like a kid would poke around in a plate of broccoli hoping somebody would finally tell him that it doesn't have to eat it. The white stuff turns into red stuff (blood) and the fountains get even bigger. He didn't survive it.
The End
The film's most original idea seems to be that one way to overcome a phobia is desensitization by confronting ones fear. This method, for example, can cure somebody's fear of spiders. So the idea or the film's thesis is that you can do the same with the fear of dead bodies. After a short talk-show skit of a man talking about this the film doesn't explore this idea any further, though.
But you could argue that desensitization happens to us while watching the film. Maybe it will take some viewers' fear to ram a chair leg into a decayed body to have sexual intercourse with it. I'm not sure it worked on me but maybe it worked on you. Well, did it?