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| Laurence R. Harvey & Ashlynn Yennie |
Writer/director Tom Six is
one hell of a salesman. Peddling his particular brand of wares is no small
feat, and peddling them successfully, even more so. I was rather on the fence
about his controversial debut, The
Human Centipede [First Sequence], admiring parts of it more than the whole,
but with this follow-up he’s accomplished what few before him have, and that’s
creating a sequel that bests its predecessor. On the other hand, since the
first movie wasn’t all that tits in the first place, maybe the achievement
should be kept in check. Maybe.
With this new film, the
concept goes completely meta, with the first film existing as a movie within
the universe of the second film. A short, fat mentally challenged man named
Martin (Laurence R. Harvey) is obsessed with The Human Centipede, watching it
repeatedly, making a scrapbook of its imagery and medical procedures, and even
keeping a centipede pet of his very own. He lives with his aged mother (Vivien
Bridson), and as the narrative moves forward we discover he was sexually abused
by his father, who has left both of them. The mother is a wretched piece of
work, constantly berating and blaming her son for everything that’s wrong with
her life, and there’s little left to the imagination as to why Martin is the
way he is. Although he can clearly speak, Six chooses to not ever let us hear
him do so. As about 99% of the film is spent with Martin, the result is a movie
told mostly through imagery rather than dialogue.
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