¡Death Laid an Egg
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[Machine Translation] Egg first or kill first? The only poultry-raising suspense in the history of cinema that delves into the ruthlessness of capitalism and the emptiness of life. Godard's drug-addled thriller is now available on Blu-ray for the first time in Japan, and the longest version is now available for the first time. The main character Marco is played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, the famous actor of "Man and Woman" ('66), "Z" ('69), and "The Assassination Forest" ('70), who passed away in June 2022, and his wife Anna is played by Gina Lollobrigida, who dominated the world as a synonym for Italian beauty, and Gabriele, a Swedish actress, Gabri is played by Eva Ohlin, an 18-year-old blonde beauty from Sweden with a cute and charming look. The film is directed and written by Giulio Questi, the genius behind "Django" ('67), which caused a worldwide sensation with one of the most brutal macaroni westerns ever made. In this film, Questi took on the challenge of creating a bizarre suspense pioneered by Mario Bava, a master of Italian horror, and later established by Dario Argento. The film not only paints a crime drama swirling with lust, perversion, and cruelty, but also exposes the inhumanity of capitalist society in the form of worker layoffs due to the automation of poultry farms, and the research and development of deformed broilers without heads or feathers that continue to grow without feeding, a corporate violation of bioethics in the pursuit of profit. The film exposes the inhumanity of the company that violates bioethics in the pursuit of profit, and clearly conveys a socialist message that can be seen in films by Pasolini, Antonioni, and Elio Petri of the same period. Watching the 105-minute film (the longest version), which includes cruel and unusual scenes that were not included in the 90-minute version (international version) that was distributed worldwide when the film was first released, one can see that while this is a classic work of bizarre suspense, it deviates from the formula and explores social issues, experimental visual expressions, and the loss of identity, the absurdity of the world, and the nihilism of life, which are also relevant to today. The film is an ambitious work in which the director's one and only auteuristic talent is on full display. --A huge poultry farm in the suburbs of Rome. The president, Marco, is known as a prominent figure in the industry, but his frustration with his wife, Anna, who holds the real power of management and property, grows stronger day by day. Marco is not only a lover of Anna's teenage niece, Gabri, with whom he lives, but he is also an aberrant character who ventilates his hatred for his wife through sadism toward women. When the hidden desires of each of the three are revealed, the situation takes an unexpected turn and gives birth to the most deformed chickens imaginable!
Original Release Year: 1968
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