Bones and All, Timothee Chalamet's teen cannibalism movie, is now showing on The Criterion Channel. I turned it off at the start of the first big cannibalism scene. A few seconds of that was enough. The movie got a long, standing ovation at a classy European film festival. Why would anyone watch that? Couldn't they just show people eating pot roast and say it was human?
A better cannibalism movie was Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain (1959) about Japanese soldiers in The Philippines. I assumed the cannibalism was allegorical, then I saw The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987), a documentary about a former Japanese soldier who survived the allied invasion of New Guinea. He wanted to find out what happened to his friend who, it turned out, was murdered and eaten by Japanese officers when their food ran out.
The Criterion Channel keeps showing crap. For a while they had posted the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis and they showed a couple pornographic movies made during a brief period when that sort of thing was considered "chic".
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