Os Cangaceiros
4th November 2010, 05:43
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Michel Piccoli plays a worker in the industrial painting trade (he has no name in the film). He's caught up in the daily grind of being a wage laborer, and on top of that he's always being hassled by his mother-in-law and the authorities. One day he just explodes. Grunting and bellowing gibberish at people, he returns home and destroys his apartment, throwing all of his belongings into the courtyard after tearing out his wall with a sledgehammer and sealing his front door shut with bricks and cement.
This behaviour begins to spread, and his neighbors across the courtyard also tear out their wall and throw all of their stuff into the courtyard. Another couple old people also start tearing out their wall with hammers, and more people join the "urban caveman" and his wife. The police show up and try to get them to come down, but to no avail; they're beaten back, and teargas has no effect. The apartment dwellers in rebellion like to spend their time fornicating and playing catch with teargas canisters, and when they're hungry they kidnap police officers and spit-roast them (where they magically transform into roast pigs, LOL). The film culminates with shots of busy city streets, interspersed with shots of a man who formerely loved and faithfully cleaned his car smashing it to pieces with a sledgehammer, driven into an ecstatic frenzy by the sounds of the orgy that's taking place in the destroyed apartment building above him.
There's no real dialogue in this film, although it's French. I did not watch the film with subtitles, but I was told that what little language there is in the film is either nonsense gibberish or French obscenities, LOL. The main character in the film doesn't really have any lines, unless you consider grunting, screaming, coughing, snorting and howling like a monkey to be "lines". I just thought that this was a great art film about people rebelling against alienation in the most extreme way possible, by physically destroying everything around them. (I believe that the film is inspired by Situationism, but don't quote me on that.)
Michel Piccoli plays a worker in the industrial painting trade (he has no name in the film). He's caught up in the daily grind of being a wage laborer, and on top of that he's always being hassled by his mother-in-law and the authorities. One day he just explodes. Grunting and bellowing gibberish at people, he returns home and destroys his apartment, throwing all of his belongings into the courtyard after tearing out his wall with a sledgehammer and sealing his front door shut with bricks and cement.
This behaviour begins to spread, and his neighbors across the courtyard also tear out their wall and throw all of their stuff into the courtyard. Another couple old people also start tearing out their wall with hammers, and more people join the "urban caveman" and his wife. The police show up and try to get them to come down, but to no avail; they're beaten back, and teargas has no effect. The apartment dwellers in rebellion like to spend their time fornicating and playing catch with teargas canisters, and when they're hungry they kidnap police officers and spit-roast them (where they magically transform into roast pigs, LOL). The film culminates with shots of busy city streets, interspersed with shots of a man who formerely loved and faithfully cleaned his car smashing it to pieces with a sledgehammer, driven into an ecstatic frenzy by the sounds of the orgy that's taking place in the destroyed apartment building above him.
There's no real dialogue in this film, although it's French. I did not watch the film with subtitles, but I was told that what little language there is in the film is either nonsense gibberish or French obscenities, LOL. The main character in the film doesn't really have any lines, unless you consider grunting, screaming, coughing, snorting and howling like a monkey to be "lines". I just thought that this was a great art film about people rebelling against alienation in the most extreme way possible, by physically destroying everything around them. (I believe that the film is inspired by Situationism, but don't quote me on that.)