Dear Vera Chytilová,
I remember catching your film Traps (it was called Traps, Traps and more Traps in India) at the 1998 (or was it 97?) Kochi International Film Festival. The Sreedhar theater was full. Not because Kochi is full of film enthusiasts. But because word had leaked out that your movie had a lot of sex in it.
I remember being profoundly shocked by your film. I had not been exposed to foreign language cinema back in 1998. The plot was quite ingenious - a hitchhiker is raped by two politicians. But after she wakes up, she pretends to not realize that she was raped and takes the two politicians home where she drugs them and chops off their testicles. She flees the scene. The politicians wake up and realize whats happened. They take their testicles back home in an ice bucket and store them in a freezer. But some unsuspecting person fries them up and eats them after he mistakes them for pieces of meat. I remember the whole theater burst out laughing during that scene.
Despite the payback, I remember the film had a rather disturbing end. With the raped hitchhiker walking among cows. But I was thoroughly entertained.
I decided to write this review because I remembered your film today. I will be checking out more films by you since you were quite a prolific Czech filmmaker.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(7/10)
I remember catching your film Traps (it was called Traps, Traps and more Traps in India) at the 1998 (or was it 97?) Kochi International Film Festival. The Sreedhar theater was full. Not because Kochi is full of film enthusiasts. But because word had leaked out that your movie had a lot of sex in it.
I remember being profoundly shocked by your film. I had not been exposed to foreign language cinema back in 1998. The plot was quite ingenious - a hitchhiker is raped by two politicians. But after she wakes up, she pretends to not realize that she was raped and takes the two politicians home where she drugs them and chops off their testicles. She flees the scene. The politicians wake up and realize whats happened. They take their testicles back home in an ice bucket and store them in a freezer. But some unsuspecting person fries them up and eats them after he mistakes them for pieces of meat. I remember the whole theater burst out laughing during that scene.
Despite the payback, I remember the film had a rather disturbing end. With the raped hitchhiker walking among cows. But I was thoroughly entertained.
I decided to write this review because I remembered your film today. I will be checking out more films by you since you were quite a prolific Czech filmmaker.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(7/10)