Taxidermia
Warning: May contain spoiler.
So what is this movie about when the title seems to suggest the life of a taxidermist? Frankly, call me obtuse if you want but the word taxidermist was never in my own dictionary. I have heard and seen the work of mounting animals for display. All I knew was just stuffing and mounting. What a frog I am!
Not too late 
Learning is just wonderful. I chanced upon this movie when I checked out the picturehouse. To feed my curiosity, I search for its trailer and was captivated by the scene that depicts a simple bathtub that was used for different occasions in the first story. I love how it was done, simple yet blossoming with meanings about life. My takeaway from this scene? Life is just life, someone’s life, cheap, worthless to mention coz it’s just life, life when we are all breathing and moving, be it human or animal, it’s just life, death is just the next phase. How scary huh?
I finally caught this last night after a long wait since its first opening on the 24th April. I had that ‘enough of waiting’ mood and I almost gave up on this. The show started on time, I couldn’t help but to be annoyed with so many late-comers and that really spoiled the first few minutes of the show. Late-comers did not just walk in and find their seats, but to stand in the middle aisle to catch every take of the movie. Well of course, that’s when the man masturbated, the girls were bathing in the tub, the peep, the negligence to house servant, the perversion out of care deprivation, and how he was shot in head for sleeping with the mistress. First story created laughters, disgusts, awe and sort of disbelief of what human can do in such deprivation.
The birth of a child with a pig’s tail marked the second part of the story. The boy was trained to compete in sports, speed eating contests. The love for someone, the politics, the self-esteem booster, the power one have in such contest, totally revolting with vomit scenes throughout this part of the story.
A surprising size of the child from the two renowned speed eaters couple flipped all pages to the last part of the movie. Small as he is, thin and despised by the obese father, he carried out his duty as a son and a taxidermist dutifully. He’s quiet, his stare is empty, his devotion in his work is meticulously perfect, but all come to an end after the death of his father. He turned all his attention in stuffing the body of his father and then created his own torso by taking out his internal organs, and finally cut off his own head and arm as the last piece of his work.
I did not go home with a heavy heart, cry nor laugh. I was in a daze! In a daze….
Director: György Palfi
Cast: Csaba Czene, Gergo Trocsanyi, Marc Bischoff
Genre: Fantasy/ Thriller
Language: Hungarian with English subtitles
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Warning: Not for the weak stomachs
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