Misanthropist (film)

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Movie
German title Misanthropist
Original title Seul contre tous
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1998
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Gaspar Noé
script Gaspar Noé
production Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Gaspar Noé
camera Dominique Colin
cut Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Gaspar Noé
occupation

Misanthrope is a French film drama from the year 1998 . Gaspar Noé wrote the script and directed. The film is a continuation of his short film Carne from 1991 and was published under the French original title Seul contre tous (Eng: "Alone against all" ).

action

The film begins in a French bar, in which an unknown person shows off a pistol and justifies possession of it with phrases that, as you can see in the further course of the film, strikingly resemble the protagonist's world of thought. This is followed by the actual story, told from the first-person perspective, which begins with a pictorial summary of the first part of Carne .

The formerly self-employed butcher had a wife and daughter. His wife leaves him and his daughter for someone else, commits suicide and he has to raise the mute girl alone. When one day, disturbed by her first menstrual period, she wants to run to her father's butcher's shop, she tries to seduce a construction worker. A friend of the father's comes along and brings her to him. At the sight of the blood stain, he believes she was raped. The butcher then tries, armed with a knife, to kill the culprit. He meets a completely uninvolved person and stabs him. The person survives, the butcher is sentenced to prison, and his daughter is admitted to a home. After his release, he begins a relationship with a woman whom he himself only describes as "the fat one". She gets pregnant. He moves in with her and her mother in a small provincial apartment and is financially dependent on his girlfriend. When his desire to reopen his own butcher's shop is denied by her refusal to support him so financially, he begins to develop a real hatred of his surroundings, which initially begins with the fact that he tells his pregnant girlfriend who is him had recently assumed that he had slept with another woman, hit him several times in the stomach so brutally that she lost her unborn child.

Following the deed, the butcher leaves the apartment with a pistol from his friend's mother's closet and flees back to Paris. Once there, he tries to find work again, but does not succeed. When he is turned down during an interview at a slaughterhouse that used to be a supplier to his own butcher's shop by someone he believes he knows would be practicing homosexual acts, he decides to settle with the unfair system, which he doesn't take into account that he has been working for 35 years, and now that he is dependent on help, this would be completely denied him. When he cannot quite compensate for the amount demanded for the consumed wine with his last money in a bar, he is mocked by a person who, following a verbal argument, reveals himself to be the son of the bar owner. He is then asked by the owner of the bar to leave the bar under threat of violence with a gun. On the way home, his anger knows no bounds. With a loaded gun and the determination to kill the bar owner, his son and another person who had recently mocked him in the bar, he returns a short time later to the bar, which is, however, already closed.

The next day, the butcher persuades himself that his daughter should not and cannot grow up in such a bad world and decides to shoot her, himself and what he calls the "fagot" from the slaughterhouse instead of his three cartridges Wasting people out of the bar. He takes his daughter out of the home and takes her to his hotel, for which he has not been able to raise the money for a few days. After arriving at the hotel, the leading actor experiences the sexual abuse of his daughter, as well as her subsequent murder and suicide mentally. A disturbing scene in which the world of thoughts of a murderer or potential suicide is depicted is followed by reality in which the misanthropist becomes aware of his physical love for his daughter and one sees the protagonist embracing her. This phase of reflection is ended, however, by new immoral lines of thought, such as abuse as a liberating act for real life.

Throughout the film, short context-related keywords or sentences are repeatedly faded in on a black background. These serve both the repetition of important trains of thought and the critical commentary on the action. They also underline the avant-garde note of the film.

Reviews

“A mercilessly brute story that is less interested in the narrative level than in the current social how and becomes an attack on the senses and ethics of the viewer. A strange film, the relentless overall composition of which is nevertheless a lasting experience. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Others

  • This work by Noé shows what happens to the butcher who previously tried to kill the alleged rapist of his daughter in Noé's short film Carne and is now being released.
  • The figure of the butcher also seems to have a brief appearance in the film Irreversible . There he sits naked on his bed in a hotel room at the beginning of the film and tells his story to an unknown person and says that this is all that was left.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Misanthrope . In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used