I always find it amazing how some people profess to find some sort of deep or artistic merit in controversial films like this when, in the end, they are rather pathetic in every regard (much like Baise Moi).
I had heard that this film had some rather gruesome scenes and generally I concur. This does show some war time atrocities by way of so-called "medical" experiments. The problem is that all this has no context. The main point the doctors and leaders of the experimental center seem to go on and on about is that they are working on biological weapons to defeat the enemy on the front line. Bubonic Plague I believe, but a rather nasty variant. Then we are shown scenes where a mother and daughter are murdered before the various observers with poisonous gas (connection to biological weapon?). Then we have a "subject" whose hands are snap frozen... then they use a metal rod to shatter off his frozen fingers (connection to biological weapon?). We also have prisoners tied to posts and then dynamite is exploded near them. This results in arms, legs and fingers being blown off (connection to biological weapon?). In other words, gross-out for the sheer sake of it!
A cat is eaten by rats to make the point that "even rats can overcome a cat"!!!!??? A drunk scientist throws a porcelain container in the air, it hits the roof, shatters and everyone is covered by fragments of porcelain. From this "experiment" they hail him as a genius and begin working on a "pocelain bomb." We never learn how this bomb works, we just keeping hearing references to the porcelain bomb. What on earth is this mindless crap, you may ask? Well.... that's what I'm still trying to work out.
It was dull, stupid and graphic. There is nothing worthy of praise and I wouldn't lose sleep if you haven't seen it!
I had heard that this film had some rather gruesome scenes and generally I concur. This does show some war time atrocities by way of so-called "medical" experiments. The problem is that all this has no context. The main point the doctors and leaders of the experimental center seem to go on and on about is that they are working on biological weapons to defeat the enemy on the front line. Bubonic Plague I believe, but a rather nasty variant. Then we are shown scenes where a mother and daughter are murdered before the various observers with poisonous gas (connection to biological weapon?). Then we have a "subject" whose hands are snap frozen... then they use a metal rod to shatter off his frozen fingers (connection to biological weapon?). We also have prisoners tied to posts and then dynamite is exploded near them. This results in arms, legs and fingers being blown off (connection to biological weapon?). In other words, gross-out for the sheer sake of it!
A cat is eaten by rats to make the point that "even rats can overcome a cat"!!!!??? A drunk scientist throws a porcelain container in the air, it hits the roof, shatters and everyone is covered by fragments of porcelain. From this "experiment" they hail him as a genius and begin working on a "pocelain bomb." We never learn how this bomb works, we just keeping hearing references to the porcelain bomb. What on earth is this mindless crap, you may ask? Well.... that's what I'm still trying to work out.
It was dull, stupid and graphic. There is nothing worthy of praise and I wouldn't lose sleep if you haven't seen it!