At one point in this slovenly film one of the female protagonists says, `We have no imagination', and this sadly, sums up this entire production which comes across as amateur night with the camcorder, and calculatedly designed to shock the pants off bourgeois society. But, bourgeois society is by now quite unshockable, having seen just about every permutation of human degradation, cruelty and trauma presented on screen many times over already. In any case, although films like FUCK ME, (and let's not be coy about the English translation of the title, otherwise we merely have a form of censorship based on social class), appear on the surface to be `rebellious' and `underground', it's the bourgeois society they pretend to attack and despise that bank-rolls them!
I'd eagerly welcome a movie that shocked me with its radicalism and ideas, but take away the studied and carefully stage-managed attempts to `outrage' us, and one is left with... what? Vacuous nonsense about two dysfunctional misfits who don't even have enough wit or soul to strike up a lesbian relationship to fill their otherwise empty and boring hours.
A trivial, pretentious and quite unimportant film which has aspirations way, way above the capabilities of the directors and script-writers. It is perhaps worth noting in passing that although the British film censors insisted on just one brief cut of a shot of an erect penis entering a vagina, they allowed a scene in which a revolver is placed in a man's anus and fired. There must be something we can learn from this telling fact, and this at least provided me with the only `idea' this film conveyed to me!
I'd eagerly welcome a movie that shocked me with its radicalism and ideas, but take away the studied and carefully stage-managed attempts to `outrage' us, and one is left with... what? Vacuous nonsense about two dysfunctional misfits who don't even have enough wit or soul to strike up a lesbian relationship to fill their otherwise empty and boring hours.
A trivial, pretentious and quite unimportant film which has aspirations way, way above the capabilities of the directors and script-writers. It is perhaps worth noting in passing that although the British film censors insisted on just one brief cut of a shot of an erect penis entering a vagina, they allowed a scene in which a revolver is placed in a man's anus and fired. There must be something we can learn from this telling fact, and this at least provided me with the only `idea' this film conveyed to me!