I'm gonna get to the point with this one. Many consider this film "shocking". I guess if you consider simulated pig-sex and sh!t eating "shocking" - then it is. Most consider it "disgusting" and "depraved" - no real argument there. Some say it's the "SICKEST FILM EVER MADE" - that statement I *would* dispute. Call it what ya will, VASE DE NOCES (aka WEDDING TROUGH aka THE PIG F!CKING FILM) is definitely strange - but I guess I'm one of the few that actually "saw" something in this film. It's no masterpiece by any stretch - but there's something about it that makes it "interesting"...
A guy who looks like Mr. Bean lives a solitary life on a small farm amidst the ruins of a large building. He co-habitates with chickens and turkeys, some birds, and...oh yes - his pig. Seems Bean has a fondness for his pig - as he spends much of the beginning of the film chasing after it in a "courting" manner. Eventually, Bean "mates" (ungraphically) with the pig and they produce offspring. Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me. Bean tries unsuccessfully to play the "good Daddy" role - and when the babies are unresponsive - he hangs them. The momma pig is distraught about this series of events and drowns herself in a mud-hole. This effectively ends any sort of "rational behavior" that Bean once had, and when he unsuccessfully tries to bury himself with his now deceased "bride" - he commits to eating his own crap before hanging himself...
I can't exactly put my finger on what I found "interesting" about this film - so I'll start with the down-sides: first off, the film is WWWAAAYYYY too long. There's lot's of boring stuff that could've been cut from it, shortened to about 30-minutes, and it would have been just as "effective". 90-minutes was just too much. The beastiality "angle" is obviously gonna bother some. There are scenes of dead hanging piglets and some chicken-head-cutting-offing that will no doubt inflame the PETA-crew. Now, to what I thought were the "positive" aspects. The film itself is done in such a way as to wonder what the backstory is on this chain of events. Who is Mr. Bean? Why is he living this strange, almost child-like solitary existence? None of this is ever actually explained, but the way his character is written, makes him seem more than just some pig-effing pervert - it's almost as though he knows no better. The sound-design and "score" are suitably strange and fit the mood of the film perfectly. I think that there are some underlying "themes" of the film, regarding jealousy, nurturing, possibly mental-illness, etc...that although unresolved by the end of the film, are brought up and exposed - or maybe I'm just grasping and the film is really just about a pig-effing pervert. Regardless, I can't say that I "enjoyed" the film, but again - I did find it "interesting". I would suggest a look to those that dig subversive, uber-weirdo, experimental/art-house type films. Most people trash this film (and are justified in doing so...) but I guess for me it's a situation of one-man's-trash-being-another-man's-WEDDING-TROUGH...8/10
A guy who looks like Mr. Bean lives a solitary life on a small farm amidst the ruins of a large building. He co-habitates with chickens and turkeys, some birds, and...oh yes - his pig. Seems Bean has a fondness for his pig - as he spends much of the beginning of the film chasing after it in a "courting" manner. Eventually, Bean "mates" (ungraphically) with the pig and they produce offspring. Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me. Bean tries unsuccessfully to play the "good Daddy" role - and when the babies are unresponsive - he hangs them. The momma pig is distraught about this series of events and drowns herself in a mud-hole. This effectively ends any sort of "rational behavior" that Bean once had, and when he unsuccessfully tries to bury himself with his now deceased "bride" - he commits to eating his own crap before hanging himself...
I can't exactly put my finger on what I found "interesting" about this film - so I'll start with the down-sides: first off, the film is WWWAAAYYYY too long. There's lot's of boring stuff that could've been cut from it, shortened to about 30-minutes, and it would have been just as "effective". 90-minutes was just too much. The beastiality "angle" is obviously gonna bother some. There are scenes of dead hanging piglets and some chicken-head-cutting-offing that will no doubt inflame the PETA-crew. Now, to what I thought were the "positive" aspects. The film itself is done in such a way as to wonder what the backstory is on this chain of events. Who is Mr. Bean? Why is he living this strange, almost child-like solitary existence? None of this is ever actually explained, but the way his character is written, makes him seem more than just some pig-effing pervert - it's almost as though he knows no better. The sound-design and "score" are suitably strange and fit the mood of the film perfectly. I think that there are some underlying "themes" of the film, regarding jealousy, nurturing, possibly mental-illness, etc...that although unresolved by the end of the film, are brought up and exposed - or maybe I'm just grasping and the film is really just about a pig-effing pervert. Regardless, I can't say that I "enjoyed" the film, but again - I did find it "interesting". I would suggest a look to those that dig subversive, uber-weirdo, experimental/art-house type films. Most people trash this film (and are justified in doing so...) but I guess for me it's a situation of one-man's-trash-being-another-man's-WEDDING-TROUGH...8/10