Themroc
It might have occurred to you that I have a tendency to accumulate a backlog of blog postings to write and then write like 4 all at once. For me, there are movie watching days and there are movie blogging days. Today is definitely a film watching day, but I did my best to turn it into a blogging day as well.
“Themroc” is one of these obscure films that I would never have heard of if it wasn’t for the recommendation of somebody else. In this case, 312 mentioned it to me while we were talking about restaurants in Berlin. It totally blows my mind why anybody would want to name their restaurant after “Themroc”, it’s a perfectly unappetizing movie.
There is something strangely erotic about naked bodies in French movies. For some reason, even when they are not perfect, they look exciting but there always is some odd fakeness to it. The ultimate eroticism is still the Spanish language, it sounds and looks genuine even when it is fake. Maybe this is an odd relationship I have with the neighboring languages which I sort of understand (English, French, Spanish, Italian), but it’s reflected in how I perceive movies.
Before I started watching “Themroc”, I had no idea that the film has no discernible dialogue. In fact, I have been trying to find subtitles for it to no avail. Silly me. Instead, people brabble some unintelligible quasi-French and the main character mostly moans and screams. This makes the audience focus on how things are said, how people look like, and shows that so many things can be shown without any specific words. You want to sleep with a woman? Just grab her boobies. Quite an interesting concept.
Apart from that, the film wasn’t really anything special to look at, and due to the lack of dialogue I personally found it hard to follow. The cuts were well-made and the rough esthetics of the film definitely fit its concept. It’s also not hard to see the crazy 68-ness of the time the film was made in and the social criticism it comes with. I have sympathy for authority-hating anarchy in film, and this one is an especially unusual kind. It has a multitude of known French actors in it, including Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou, so maybe that is another thing to go for.
“Themroc” is the totally kind of strange film which fails at the box office and then becomes a cult film for no apparent reason except that it really is just very, very strange. It also has everything in it: Incest, murder (of policemen!), group sex, only actual sexual perversions are missing. It’s worth a look purely out of curiosity, and perhaps a little more as well.
PS. Currently, I am also in the process of figuring out what I actually want to do with my tablet, except for reading papers and books. I might be try to figure out how to put movies onto the tablet as well, and download a drawing tool.