The most disgusting look of the year

Clare 2022-08-01 19:26:14

The Chinese subtitles have not yet been released, so I finished watching the film with a low level of English CET-6. The human elephant in this film is made of multiple pieces of skin and flesh, with long walrus tusks implanted in the mouth, which is another disgusting shape after the human centipede, even surpassing the latter.
Let me say a few points:

1. The film was inspired by an activity in a hotel, which provides accommodation for customers for free, but requires customers to act as a walrus for two hours a day. Director Kevin Smith created the film after seeing this ad.

2. The big boss Howe in the film is a Canadian adventurer. He sunk a ship during a voyage. He drifted to a deserted island. The cold was unbearable. It was a walrus that warmed him and allowed him to survive. But he was too hungry, so he ate the walrus before he was rescued. The walrus rescued him, but he ate the walrus, guilt and self-blame for many years, and finally turned into a perverted murderer. In the film, he wore a walrus shape and wrestled with Wallace, who was stabbed to death by Wallace, which was a kind of spiritual relief for him.

3. The film begins with the laughter of Wallace and Teddy. They laugh at the 2B youth with a broken leg. Interestingly, Wallace was later chopped off by Howe.

4. Wallace's conversation with the bearded inspector at the airport was very interesting. For example, Canadians do not feel sad, but Americans do. The reason is that the American flag is red and blue, and the Canadian flag is red and not blue (blue: sad). The Canadian flag is only red, which also hints at the ominous nature of Wallace's trip to Canada.

5. One of the differences between humans and animals is that humans shed tears, but Wallace, who has been transformed into a walrus in the end, shed tears. He has lived the life of a walrus, is he still considered a human?

6. There are many dark places in the film, such as the story of Howe and the walrus, and Teddy deliberately not answering Wallace's call for help in order to get Ally.

7. In the last easter egg, the Not-see party broadcasted Wallace's experience in Canada as a comedy show. Wallace wanted to find the program material, but he did not expect to become the program material, so ironic.

8. The disadvantage of the film is that the plot is not straightforward and clever, and it is very chatty, and the dialogue is constant. Depp's cameo did not shine. But a disgusting horror film can have such a connotation, a bit of depth, and it is already good.

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Extended Reading

Tusk quotes

  • Ally Leon: You! You bring me back. You make me feel beautiful again and cherished. You give me my humanity.

  • Wallace Bryton: How far is Bifrost from here?

    Girl Clerk #2: Bifrost? Shit, that's far.

    Girl Clerk #1: [in Canadian accent] It's aboot 2 hours from here.

    Wallace Bryton: Yeah, these girls are telling me it's "aboot" two hours away.

    Girl Clerk #1: I hate American guys.