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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  You might be surprised, Trebor - it's by no means a Sunday afternoon matinee type affair, but nor is it a shit pit of depravity. In fact, beneath the surface squalor there's a lot of wry black humour and something quite touching, too. The last time I saw it (about two years ago) the only thing that stuck in my throat was the slightly ham-fisted gore, which seemed a bit clumsy in a film which is raw but actually in some ways quite subtle. And it is a romance at the end of the day! |
I thought it a very funny film and as you say it is a romance at the end of the day. I do think that it also needs to be viewed in the wider context of underground cinema of the time to perhaps get a better angle on it's aesthetics.