David
04-18-2006, 06:43 PM
Great John Simon opening paragraph:
"The bill of fare in _Futz_ includes: zoophilia (the hero, Futz, in carnal love with his pig, Amanda), homosexuality, transvestitism, troilism I (man, woman, pig), troilism II (two men & a repugnantly porcine girl, naked, gamboling in the mud), coprophilia (the slaughtering of Amanda before your eyes, the villagers smearing one another with, & wallowing in, the pig's gore), pyromania,
masturbation, fetishism, varieties of sadism, sex murder, incest & sacrilege (an idiot & his sexually doting mother repeatedly compared to Christ & the Virgin Mary), voyeurism, exhibitionism (every kind of gratuitous nudity, & particularly a shapeless-bodied & sick-faced Sally Kirkland riding naked on a pig--this scene, like several others, not integrated into the plot, just dragged in for the sheer beauty of it), & various forms of mass copulation. The amazing thing is that out of this pleasant assortment of bestialities, the scenarists ... & the director ... have not been able to create anything more than totally asexual boredom."
"The bill of fare in _Futz_ includes: zoophilia (the hero, Futz, in carnal love with his pig, Amanda), homosexuality, transvestitism, troilism I (man, woman, pig), troilism II (two men & a repugnantly porcine girl, naked, gamboling in the mud), coprophilia (the slaughtering of Amanda before your eyes, the villagers smearing one another with, & wallowing in, the pig's gore), pyromania,
masturbation, fetishism, varieties of sadism, sex murder, incest & sacrilege (an idiot & his sexually doting mother repeatedly compared to Christ & the Virgin Mary), voyeurism, exhibitionism (every kind of gratuitous nudity, & particularly a shapeless-bodied & sick-faced Sally Kirkland riding naked on a pig--this scene, like several others, not integrated into the plot, just dragged in for the sheer beauty of it), & various forms of mass copulation. The amazing thing is that out of this pleasant assortment of bestialities, the scenarists ... & the director ... have not been able to create anything more than totally asexual boredom."