Bread and Circus (2003 Norway)

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What's wrong with me, that I watch movies like "Bread and Circus" and enjoyed it. The movie literally starts with mother's earth vagina (a giant vagina that's on the ground) giving birth to a fully grown man. Those born imperfect are disposed of and returned to the "Black hole" on the other side of the world. This movie, through some nasty gore and one incredibly gross poop joke becomes a splatter fest of violence and comedy that will (or should) turn off the average viewer. I you can stand something that is surreal to the max, laced with Monty Python style humour, this movie is for you.

                I had read several reviews where people stated that this film had a real "strong message" about the world. Really? Could it just be someone trying to justify watching disgusting filth, nasty bloody effects, and childish adult humour, so they can still keep their heads up high. I don't know, maybe the alien ship shaped as a circumcised penis, entering mother earth's vagina, in and out, in and out, really made people think about the state the world is in. Or perhaps, when one character happens to get a coke bottle cramped up his anus and proceeded to drink from it after retrieving it really captured the metaphor for people consuming the shit that the media defecates on us on a regular bases? Whatever you need to rationalize why you enjoyed it is your own business, but please, let's not make this out to be something it is not... profound.

                "Bread and Circus" is crass, sick, shocking, juvenile, vulgar, and yet exceptionally ambitious and  uncompromisingly original. Beware though, once you see it you cannot un-see it.   

See it (with warnings)