"Life and desire are endless" - watch "Thinner"

Devyn 2022-10-16 12:04:00

One of the original sins of Christianity is "gluttony." The human desire and thirst for food is a source of evil.

At the beginning of the film, the first person to appear is a bloated and fat man, wearing high-end clothing, weighing 300 pounds, while his wife is very slim and beautiful. This fat man is the protagonist of the movie. The protagonist is a very good lawyer, and the film starts off by winning a lawsuit for the Italian mafia, who eat and drink to celebrate. On the way home at night, the man's wife wanted to divert his attention from the food, so he kj for him while he was driving. Unexpectedly, he unfortunately hit and killed a gypsy. In the subsequent court trial, both the judge and the sheriff exonerated him. He successfully escaped the crime and became a free man again. When he left the court, the father of the old woman who was killed by him stroked his face and said, "Skinny to death". Things started to get weird after that. He lost endless weight every day, and the two other people who helped him were also "cursed" and died.

When the male protagonist was afraid, he wanted to find the old man, but was considered mentally ill by his wife and her lover, so he embarked on the road of revenge, and it was the Italian mafia who helped him revenge at the beginning of the movie.

The mafia used various extreme methods to retaliate against the gypsies. In the end, the gypsies decided to lift the curse and let the male protagonist take the pie infused with his blood to others to eat, so that the curse of "skinny to death" could be transferred. The Lord thought of his cheating wife and gave her the pie. Sure enough, she died the next day, but at the same time, his daughter also went to eat pie. When he wanted to eat pie himself in desperation, his wife's The lover also came, he invited the lover to eat pie, and closed the door.

It's an endless tale of revenge, and we have no way of knowing if they all ended up being "thin". This is another endless story about human nature. Conscience and selfishness are intertwined between the characters, each with their own dark side and the opposite. The male protagonist chooses selfishness almost every time, and like everyone else, everyone causes many innocent casualties for their own happiness and interests.

But what is "end"? No one can tell. The development of modern society is so fast that there is no room for people to relax for a moment. Everyone is making continuous progress. The male protagonist has made many excellent strokes in his career. He has an endless thirst for food, and the Italian mafia is thirsty for destruction. , the male protagonist's wife's desire for sexual desire ... everyone is endlessly craving something.

Dissatisfaction with desire is human nature. I think the title of the film "Thinner" probably not only means "thin to death", but also implies that in modern society, those inflated desires also need an "end".

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Thinner quotes

  • Billy Halleck: Richie, this is getting out of hand!

    Richie Ginelli: No, this has BEEN out of hand, and I'm just the guy to put it back *in* hand.

  • Chief Duncan Hopley: [about Lempke's daughter] Oh, what the hell. Old lady was jaywalking!