(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <p>Guy (Jared Masters), a lonely and numbers-obsessed office clerk who does "the numbers" for his clients (it's never explained in full), one day realizes he needs a secretary - and pretty much hires the first applicant, Iesha Stayput, who just happens to be a living, breathing mannequin (voiced by Brittany Ballantyne) - and at first he's only taken in by her professionalism, but soon he starts to have feelings for her as well (thus the title, "Agalmatophilia", a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin), and he, who has so far mostly been tied to his desk, starts to go out with her and stuff. But there's his client, Veronique (Brittany Ballantine in the flesh), who at first only gets friendly with Guy as she's not able to pay her invoices on time, but before long she starts getting interested in him as a man, too - and even if she's got some weird fetishes on her own for sure, she eventually notices there's something not 100% right with Guy ...<p> <p>Now this is most certainly a very unusual film, an extremely weird, twisted romance between a man and a shopwindow mannequin, done very much in a way as if it was a very natural thing, with a minimum of special effects, and without any fantasy or horror motives or even vastly simplified psychology tagged on - and especially for these reasons it works, it just tells its story, doesn't lose steam in long-winded explanations or fancy effects, just lets us see the world through Guy's and later also Veronique's eyes - but with an extra shot of irony (rather than moronic humour). And the outcome is ... well, not for everyone, but if you're into the slightly bizarre, you'll get lots of enjoyment out of this.<p> <p>  <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2018"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>