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Unique style with very well-arranged and forceful filming, sound and intertitles, and metaphorical scenes impressively suggesting a combination of sexual and violent impulses. Short but already enough to show clearly Gaspar Noé's ability to produce in the audience a strong psychological effect.

As a prologue to Noe's follow-up film "Seul Contre Teus", we get a inside view into the background story of "Le Boucher" (Also, briefly Irreversible). From the birth of his mute daughter to how he ended up with the Fat Bitch, it explains where his nihilism and misanthropic pessimism on the world manifests. All done in the signature Noé style of callous and sardonic realism, here, the claustrophobic tunnel into thee series of the unconscious incubus begins.

A good prequel to "I Stand Alone". I don't have much more to say about it rather than... it felt far more disturbing to watch this compared to the sequel. To only get the storyline one doesn't have to watch this. It's summed up in the beginning of "I Stand Alone"... but I still think it's worth watching this one (before watching "I Stand Alone").