The protagonist of the film, Sergio, lives in Lisbon and is a handsome little fresh meat in his early 20s. He is a cleaner, and his daily job is to sweep the road at night, clear the garbage cans on the street and other people's unwanted waste. The streets in the middle of the night seemed desolate and silent. Sergio closed his heart, and was in the company of dirty garbage, and gradually lost his ability to communicate with people. His best friend is his boss' dog.
A female co-worker is very attentive to Sergio, but he doesn't love her. This female colleague likes to play on the scene, and also flattery and ambiguous with her boss, which makes Sergio feel bored. He would rather play with the dog. One day, Sergio and his colleagues went to a handsome guy's house to collect garbage, and he was fascinated. Since then, Sergio has been eyeing people. He often goes to the handsome guy's trash can to rummage things, and picks up the torn swimming trunks that the handsome guy doesn't want. Hanging himself and jerking off, he fell into a terrifying, morbid obsession.
Sergio's erotic desires include cutting sleeves, fetishes, and SM. He often skips work at night to have fun, seduce handsome guys in public toilets, and even molest suspects in police cars, but his favorite is still that him. He went to the handsome guy's house to peep over and over again, followed him to the swimming pool, and finally kidnapped him and dragged him to the street, but looking at the handsome guy's angry and contemptuous expression, Sergio suddenly lost his lust, he knew that the handsome guy would never Will like him, even left him and walked away.
Sergio's sickness was unbearable for his boss and colleagues, and he eventually burned his garbage truck and fired him. Sergio, who has lost his job and lost his lust, puts on a sm latex suit and roams the streets of Lisbon like a walking dead. Where will he go?
Produced in Portugal in Europe, the film is well-made and beautifully photographed. Unlike ordinary low-cost art DV films, it has a low-key, delicate splendor. The director is called Giuseppedro Rodriguez, and he is also a typical eccentric director. His next work, Calling Love in the Heart of the Cemetery, continues to be a shocker.
The film vividly shows the morbid beauty of self-destruction. The male protagonist is young and handsome, but he is in the company of garbage. In the end, he even picks up rotten fruit and drinks dirty water in the garbage dump. He has completely lost his reason and became a dog. The film gradually lost its music and dialogue, and the plot became more and more absurd, like a nightmare. And the strange figure of Sergio, who stands out on the screen, has unforgettable interpretation of the painful feeling of loneliness and despair.
"O Fantasma" caused numerous controversies that year, and also gained fame and fortune. Its particularity, even now, it is not an exaggeration to be praised as one of the best cult films of the 2000s.
Friendly reminder: People with low psychological tolerance and depression are not allowed to watch.
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