Two soldiers share a room that's on the verge of falling apart, and
mainly they are abusing one another, both physically and mentally, and the
older one of them loves to play around with shit, too. Their abuse of one
another mirrors the abuse they experience from their respective superiors,
an abuse that eventually makes the older of the soldiers lose his marbles
- which makes the younger of the soldiers, out of a feeling of loyalty,
rape his roommate's superior, kill him and take apart his corpse. Then he
slits his own wrists. Soon enough, the younger's superior shows up, and the older
soldier kills him and rapes his corpse ... This movie seemingly
has only one raison d'être - to offend the hell out of everybody.
It does so by showing everything that's supposed to disgust you from
shitting and eating shit to raping, killing and gutting people, and its shaky
handcamera-style is there to give a certain level of authencity to the
proceedings. However, since the story of the film is so thin and its
characters so unlikeable, it doesn't really manage to offend, it just grosses out
its audience, and those in their right minds probably just walk out of
it. Those who sit through it nevertheless will soon find the shaky
camerawork that frequently goes in and out of focus annoying, while all the
onscreen atrocities become mind-numbing after a time ... so much so that
only the shouting of the actors (apparently their understanding of acting)
keeps one from falling asleep. By the way, this film was banned
in Russia after just one showing and subsequently almost everywhere else
in the world - which unfortunately just
adds to its notoriety, which the movie, for all its badness would have never
achieved otherwise.
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