TAXIDERMIA is a horrible film. The director, who possesses some kind of art-house sensibility, has seemingly decided to make a film as grotesque and offensive as possible. He tells the story of three men in three generations of the same family, and what follows is an anthology of three linked stories.
The first is about a soldier who's also a sexual pervert. Lots of unpleasant sexuality in this one, and it's all a bit pointless. I struggled through it, and hoped the second story would be better. It isn't, it's far worse: a lengthy segment about a speed eater, the sole purpose of this part is to show obese people vomiting. Over and over again. The final part follows the same character, but also links to his son, who has some bizarre notions about death and art.
The characters are outrageous, the script is silly and the glorification of the grotesque just doesn't work. There's no point to all this, no power, and attempts to justify TAXIDERMIA as a groundbreaking exercise in surrealism are, in fact, groundless. Instead, this puerile piece of nonsense is nothing more than the vision of somebody with crude and childish tastes who has too much time on his hands.
The first is about a soldier who's also a sexual pervert. Lots of unpleasant sexuality in this one, and it's all a bit pointless. I struggled through it, and hoped the second story would be better. It isn't, it's far worse: a lengthy segment about a speed eater, the sole purpose of this part is to show obese people vomiting. Over and over again. The final part follows the same character, but also links to his son, who has some bizarre notions about death and art.
The characters are outrageous, the script is silly and the glorification of the grotesque just doesn't work. There's no point to all this, no power, and attempts to justify TAXIDERMIA as a groundbreaking exercise in surrealism are, in fact, groundless. Instead, this puerile piece of nonsense is nothing more than the vision of somebody with crude and childish tastes who has too much time on his hands.