katzykat Disturbing, beautiful, and weird. I read about this movie on a website at first and thought "A man boinking his pig? That sounds retarded." But then....I found out it was ridiculously hard to attain and I had to watch it, and I got a good copy so I was able to see everything clearly. This is both a blessing and a curse. The pig boinking scenes are, eh, well clearly he's really enjoying it and as much as I wanted to stop watching it, I couldn't, it's like a car wreck. Although, I think the scene where he's naked chasing the pig around that pen is even more disturbing-he's like a hunter going after his prey. He WANTS his pig. I feel like it was about to be a rape scene. Also He's got obsessions. He obsessively saves things in jars, pretty much saving everything he finds. I think when he's placing the jars on the shelf and they keep falling off is a metaphor to what's happening to him, he is losing control, cracking, and can't keep everything in place. He also acts obsessive with the piglets, who by the way don't look mutant, they look like cute little piglets and there are 2 funny scenes with them when he tries to cloth the piglets and they don't want to wear the clothes. Then that scene at the table where they won't eat from their dishes, so cute. But it demonstrates how obsessive he is. Some have mentioned that he is autistic, and I would agree that he is. (Also, what is THAT with the doll heads and the birds? Like he's trying to create a mutant creature, but it isn't working). And while all of this way creepy/icky/disturbing, the truly disturbing thing to me is the loneliness he had to experience as a result of his environment. The whole movie is void of talking, just the sounds of the animals and the music. Although there are a lot of slow scenes in this movie I think they help convey the emptiness of his days, the loneliness being surrounded by nothing but animals, and the mundane ordinariness of it all. Then the piglets come along, he dives into taking care of them. That made me sad too, the way he was so excited about his piglets because that is the only exciting and good thing happening in his life. So then he kills them. Then his lover kills herself. Then he eats his own crap and kills himself. The sound of the pig screaming while running away was blood curdling and made me sad. So, why would I like it? Im not sure, but I did. It was tragic and you really felt for this guy despite his "habits" because while watching him I really felt he did not know any better. What's more, I found myself wanting to know his past, where did he come from? How did he end up here and why? Also, the music was weird but fitting. I think it will forever be stuck in my head. This was the most disturbing film I've seen.

gunslinger861 I remember being 15 and discovering a website called video mayhem of Florida. I remember it was a vast oasis of wonderfully obscure and violent films,most of which i never dreamed i thought id'e see. To my luck i have though. One title in particular stood out to me as something i never in my wildest dreams thought id'e get a chance at. The film was vase de noces,also known as The wedding trough,and the much cruder title The pig fornicating film. The basic story is of a lonely farmer who may or may not be the last man on earth,although i think the idea of the last man on earth is a much more disturbing plot point. Anyway through his loneliness and isolation he from s bond with a large sow pig. As the film progresses we see a bizarre courtship between man and animal culminating in a very graphic scene of bestiality. Strangely enough the sow becomes pregnant and gives birth to three little piglets in a graphic birthing scene. We watch as the farmer tries in vain to raise the quote unquote children but fails as they prefer there mother to him.In a fit of desperation he hangs all the piglets. This being seen by the mother pig,she runs into a mud pit and drowns.To the farmers despair he hauls his beloved out of the pit and attempts to bury her with himself. Now in complete state of hopelessness he goes on a spree of eating both animal and human feces until he grows violently ill and hangs himself. The last image is of his swinging corpse.Now before i actually watched this film i can not tell you how many negative reviews i read about this film. When i finally got down to watch it i was surprisingly entertained. The film plays out like tragedy. I was not so much disturbed by the content as i was by the themes of this film. At first glance one would pass this film off as nothing but zoophelic garbage passed of as an art film,and it would be hard to argue that.however to quote shrek this film is like an onion,it has layers. And the deeper you go into this film the harder it is to take. Once you get past the ideas of bestiality you realise that there are themes of isolation,madness,loneliness,the trials frustrations of parenting,and even forbidden love to a strange extent. I do not condone this film for the fact that the idea of platonic love between a man and an animal not only disturbs me but i also find it reprehensible. I can though and I'm not trying to sound contradictory understand the fact that the single true character in this film deals with true mental illness and one has to understand that in that state of mind one can be capable of some truly vile acts.To me this film is a showcase of a directors demons and personal woes although i can not say if bestiality is his true focus. Maybe the aforementioned issues above...who knows. As a film vase de noces surpasses any art film i have seen with the exception of begotten. Really as an experiment more then anything, for that alone i give this film a higher then usual rating. However be warned this film is greatly troubling whether its the content or the themes you may not walk away from this film with the same outlook for a while.

mrdonleone this movie is a perfect example of how a work of art can be misunderstood. when I read all the comments about 'Vase de noces', I was shocked. how can something so beautiful as this movie be misinterpreted? because that's all it is: interpretations. this movie is, because it has got no dialog, one big interpretation. so let's give mine by repeating it's only my interpretation: this movie is about homophobia, even though I only understood its message at the end of the picture. everything became clear to me: obviously, the protagonist is a farmer boy with mental problems, probably caused by something like, perhaps, childhood terrorism, it isn't mentioned in the movie (no dialog, remember?), but it's clear to say this teenage boy has got real problems. because he lives all alone in a farm with his animals, nobody helps him to fur fill his needs. and he has got some weird needs, but only (I interpret) because he lives alone, he's homosexual and no man in around (and no woman either) to help him get off his sexual desires. luckily for the poor kid, there are his animals. they help him go on with his life, by giving free sexual encounters and giving him the possibility to kill whenever he's upset. please, do not forget, I do not give away anything about this movie, there are shocks with thousands in this one I won't tell a thing about. but what I found so interesting, is that the boy has got some issues, he's a bit like the Amon Goeth character in 'Schindler's List', very interesting. he hurts himself, he loves himself, he wants to do good, he fails by being the opposite. how will this character study develop? to know this, you must see this art house movie, pure genius. and the thing about it all, is its hidden message, which I thought was that we must stop hating homosexuals and welcome them in society to avoid situations like the one portrayed in 'Vase de noces', one of the best films I've ever seen.

Helltopay27 Wedding Trough is a sick piece of garbage that no human being should ever be subjected to ever knowing about, let alone viewing. Despite being an art-house film obscurity with some of the most surrealistic images ever captured on film, it's still one of the most repugnant, upsetting, and disturbing films ever made, and is no different than any other exploitation sleaze made during this period. It's sheer ability to bore and disgust is incredible beyond belief, with displays so nauseating that I had to turn away from the screen several times. I can honestly say it's the only movie that almost set off my gag reflex. Surrealism is supposed to be the interpretation and display of the artist's unconscious mind. If this is true, then director Thierry Zéno must be a latent zoophiliac who likes to subject people to the most insanely strange and disgusting series of events that will make you think the human race is doomed if even one more person remotely similar to this man exists (and there is: "star" Dominique Garny). What makes it worse is that it wasn't a painting that he used to express his warped mind, but had it actually acted out with real creatures.It's hard to examine this movie chronologically, because there essentially is no plot to speak of. More, it's the time and trials of a perverse and morally depraved farmer and his hubby, the pig. You'd almost have to describe every random and outright bizarre scene one by one in order. It opens with the farmer trying to fasten doll heads onto pigeons, and after doing this for a few minutes, he decides to go grope his pig. The movie is full of random displays of a man and his pig "bonding," such as both of them sitting and rolling in a giant pile of manure. Anyway, he decides to get naked around his pig a couple of times, then chases it around, and finally commits the deed. If you thought it might happen off screen or in the shadows, you're dead wrong. He screws his pig in full daylight with thrusts so graphic that it actually seems like he's having sex with it. When the piglets are finally born (with the births shown in their full "glory"), he tries to bond with his children, but they don't like him too much. So, he hangs them all. The sow freaks out, runs off, and drowns in a mud hole. Now that the love of his life is gone, he tries burying himself alive (which doesn't work out too well), so he spends the last ten minutes of the movie eating his own liquidated crap until he mercifully hangs himself for his sake and ours.Specifically, the stomach-churning scenes throughout are too many to count. Most notably are obviously the seriously disturbing shows of loving animals way too much (though it's no different than what you would see at a PETA compound). Other completely random and disturbing acts are animals copulating constantly, scenes of the farmer collecting strange materials and mixtures in jars, and the most vomit-worthy of all, the ten minutes of already eaten smörgåsbord, which I can say in all honesty was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. I was also surprised to see that some animals were also actually killed in the movie. Early on, a chicken has its head cut off with a straight razor, and the farmer puts the body in a cage while it runs around decapitated for about a minute before it dies. The sow and piglets also seem to have really been killed. But shocking and nauseating displays aren't the only things going against this movie. The film is downright boring. It crawls at a pace so slow that it makes Atom Age Vampire look like Terminator 2. Scenes are drawn out way too long, some that involve the farmer walking around doing nothing, others just show close ups of animals (again, often having sex), and they often last over ten minutes! The strange acts don't hold your attention for more than a few minutes, and when the scene changes, it's another chance for you to test your constitution and think, "Oh boy, here we go again!"Because I don't enjoy the inner-mechanisms of a perverse psycho's mind doesn't mean that I can't interpret art. Rather, I think this is the farthest thing you can get from art, because scenes are set up in such a way that it seems that this is simply trying to be nauseating exploitation (the coprophagia scenes, for example). As a result, any underlying messages that may be present are lost in the barrage of filth coming from the screen. Surely there are other horrifyingly grotesque films out there as art (notably Jörg Buttgereit's works), but at least those films can be found somewhat tragic and even beautiful as they deal with human feelings and sadness. This, however, is a freak show meant only to push the limits of surrealism to include perversity beyond the realm of the imagination. Its only intention in art is to hope someone who views it is naive enough to think that any bizarre images caught on a visual medium automatically makes something surrealistic art (surreal, yes; art, no). I seriously suggest that anyone curious beyond belief to see this should skip it. It's better to be driven mad by curiosity than to be stuck with these images trapped in your head for the rest of your life.