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The Iconic Dutch Horror Film The Human Centipede by Director Tom Six Was Released in 2009 and Produced Some Rather Visible Reactions
The Iconic Dutch Horror Film The Human Centipede by Director Tom Six Was Released in 2009 and Produced Some Rather Visible Reactions
It was condemned for its revolting and grotesque scenes , which showed a German
surgeon who kidnaps three tourists, tortures them, before he joins them surgically, mouth
to anus, forming a "human centipede" - a conjoined triplet.
გერმანული საშინელებათა ფილმი The Human Centipede (მრავალფეხა ადამიანი) (რეჟისორი ტომ
სიქსი) გამოვიდა 2009 წელს და გამოიწვია საკმაოდ საინტერესო რეაქციები.
The controversy would continue with Six's sequel to the film The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), which
was only released in the UK in 2011 after substantial cuts and edits, after the British Board of Film
Classification (BBFC) refused to give the film an 18 certificate unless the film cut a large number of graphic
scenes - including masturbation with sandpaper, rape with barbed wire, and the brutal murder of a
newborn baby.
The final film in the torture trilogy The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) was critically panned and
derided for its enjoying of sexual violence and self-serious focus on punishment in the criminal justice
system.
Tom Six's next film is psychological thriller The Onania Club, which is due out later this year, so we think this
would be the perfect time to look at what inspired the Dutch director's disturbing iconic trilogy.
The main inspiration for the film came from a joke that Six had told to his friend where he
explained a punishment for child molesters which would see their mouths stitched to the
anus of a fat truck driver.
Human Centipede
სიქსის მთავარი ისტორიული ინსპირაცია იყო მეორე მსოფლიო ომში საკონცენტრაციო ბანაკის
ტყვეებზე ჩატარებული ნაცისტური ექსპერიმენტები, მათ შორის დოქტორ ჯოზეფ მენგელის
დიაბოლური ექსპერიმენტები.
The experiments saw prisoners across Europe forced to participate in tests that mostly
ended in death, trauma, disfigurement, and permanent disability.
The vile examples of medical torture included tests on twins, with twins being forcibly sewn
together to become conjoined, and dying eyes in twins to see how they would react. If one
twin died in the experiment, the other would always be killed.
The monsters also conducted bone, muscle, and nerve transplants on prisoners without
the use of anesthesia.
There were also tests of new drugs, weapons (such as mustard gas and poisons) and
sterilization on prisoners, against their will, which would have long-lasting medical
reprecussions.
The film also features victims of multiple nationalities to represent countries involved in
World War Two, with the evil Dr Josef Heiter (Heiter meaning "cheerful" in German)
representing the Nazi German psyche.
Finally, Six was also inspired by the previous cinematic offerings from visceral directors
David Cronenberg and David Lynch, and also the Dutch iteration of the iconic reality series
Big Brother.
Six decided to make the plot very meta: it would focus on a fan of the first film who would
then conduct his own sadistic experiments and punishments.
The chief inspiration for this decision was Six's fascination with copycat serial killers, who
usually start as fans of the original killer.
The term copycat killer was coined after the killings by iconic and mysterious serial killer
Jack the Ripper sparked a number of similar murders.
რიგით ფილმმა ყველაფერი უფრო ბნელ ადგილზე მიიღო, გაცილებით გრაფიკული სცენებით
და უფრო განსხვავებული ინსპირაციებით.
The film Natural Born Killers starring Woody Harrelson is often blamed for sparking copycat
killings, after being loosely based on serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann
Fugate.
Up to 12 murders were linked with being inspired by that film, including teenage couple
Benjamin Darras and Sarah Edmondson, who described themselves taking LSD and
watching the film on repeat before killing 3 people and paralysing another.
ფილმი Natural Born Killers, რომელშიც ვუდი ჰარელსონი მონაწილეობს, ხშირად ადანაშაულებენ
კოპიკატ მკვლელობებს მკვლელობაში, მას შემდეგ რაც მას სერიალ მკვლელები ჩარლზ
სტარკვეტერი და კარილ ენ ფუგატი ეყრდნობიან.
The character of Martin Lomax is a short, obese man who is mentally challenged and becomes
obsessed with the first film, before setting out to create a larger human centipede than the 3 people
sewn together in the first film.
მარტინ ლომაქსის პერსონაჟი არის მოკლე, მსუქანი კაცი, რომელიც ფსიქიურად არის ავად და
პირველივე ფილმზე შეპყრობილი ხდება, სანამ მანამდე შექმნის უფრო დიდ მრავალფეხა
ადამიანს, ვიდრე პირველ ფილმში შეკერილი 3 ადამიანი.
It was set in a prison where a psychopathic prison warden and his accountant (each played
by the actors behind the villains of the first two films) who decide to inflict brutal torture
upon the inmates of the prison - including mass castration, cannibalism, genital mutilation
and a massive five-hundred person sized centipede.
იგი ციხეში იყო, სადაც ფსიქოპათიური ციხის მეურვე და მისი ბუღალტერი (თითოეულს
მსახიობებს თამაშობენ პირველი ორი ფილმის ბოროტმოქმედების უკან), რომლებიც
გადაწყვეტენ ციხის პატიმრებს სასტიკად აწამონ - მათ შორის, მასობრივი კასტრირება,
კანიბალიზმი, გენიტალიების დასახიჩრება. და მასიური ხუთასი კაციანი მრავალფეხა ადამიანი.
The film had a much more satirical tone, but this was one of the many aspects of the piece
that critics and fans slammed.
With the Governor (played by Hollywood star Eric Roberts) approves the torture as being
"what America needs" at the end of the film, things enter a more dystopian territory - as we
see extreme values in corporal punishment come bleed into culturally-approved torture.
Corporal punishment is always a controversial topic, but its pros and cons were dealt with
no sympathy here.
ფილმს გაცილებით სატირული ტონი ჰქონდა, მაგრამ ეს იმ ნაწილის ერთ-ერთი მრავალი ასპექტი
იყო, რომელსაც კრიტიკოსები და ფანები აკრიტიკებდნენ.
Six likely saw inspiration in infamous prisons that were the site of torture, such as the US
base at Guantanomo Bay in Cuba, and of course the Nazi concentration camps that were
the chief basis of the first film.
ჩვენ ველით, რომ ტომ სიქსის შემდეგი ფილმი ისეთივე მაპროვოცირებელი იქნება, როგორც წინა
სამი იყო.