"Life and desire are endless" - watch "Thinner"

Devyn 2022-10-16 12:04:00

One of the original sins of Christianity is "gluttony." The human desire and thirst for food is a source of evil.

At the beginning of the film, the first person to appear is a bloated and fat man, wearing high-end clothing, weighing 300 pounds, while his wife is very slim and beautiful. This fat man is the protagonist of the movie. The protagonist is a very good lawyer, and the film starts off by winning a lawsuit for the Italian mafia, who eat and drink to celebrate. On the way home at night, the man's wife wanted to divert his attention from the food, so he kj for him while he was driving. Unexpectedly, he unfortunately hit and killed a gypsy. In the subsequent court trial, both the judge and the sheriff exonerated him. He successfully escaped the crime and became a free man again. When he left the court, the father of the old woman who was killed by him stroked his face and said, "Skinny to death". Things started to get weird after that. He lost endless weight every day, and the two other people who helped him were also "cursed" and died.

When the male protagonist was afraid, he wanted to find the old man, but was considered mentally ill by his wife and her lover, so he embarked on the road of revenge, and it was the Italian mafia who helped him revenge at the beginning of the movie.

The mafia used various extreme methods to retaliate against the gypsies. In the end, the gypsies decided to lift the curse and let the male protagonist take the pie infused with his blood to others to eat, so that the curse of "skinny to death" could be transferred. The Lord thought of his cheating wife and gave her the pie. Sure enough, she died the next day, but at the same time, his daughter also went to eat pie. When he wanted to eat pie himself in desperation, his wife's The lover also came, he invited the lover to eat pie, and closed the door.

It's an endless tale of revenge, and we have no way of knowing if they all ended up being "thin". This is another endless story about human nature. Conscience and selfishness are intertwined between the characters, each with their own dark side and the opposite. The male protagonist chooses selfishness almost every time, and like everyone else, everyone causes many innocent casualties for their own happiness and interests.

But what is "end"? No one can tell. The development of modern society is so fast that there is no room for people to relax for a moment. Everyone is making continuous progress. The male protagonist has made many excellent strokes in his career. He has an endless thirst for food, and the Italian mafia is thirsty for destruction. , the male protagonist's wife's desire for sexual desire ... everyone is endlessly craving something.

Dissatisfaction with desire is human nature. I think the title of the film "Thinner" probably not only means "thin to death", but also implies that in modern society, those inflated desires also need an "end".

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Thinner quotes

  • Billy Halleck: Alright I'll go. But before I go, I curse YOU! The Curse of the White Man from Town!

  • Billy Halleck: [Knocking on the front door, Leda opens the door] Leda, is uh, is Cary in?

    Leda Rossington: He's in Minnesota visiting relatives.

    [She starts to close the door, he stops her]

    Billy Halleck: What's wrong with him? Has he lost weight?

    Leda Rossington: What are you talking about?

    Billy Halleck: I've lost a hundred pounds. That's built with a, uh, a one and two zeros.

    Leda Rossington: It was the gypsies, wasn't it?

    Billy Halleck: What do you mean: gypsies?

    Leda Rossington: Did he touch? Did the old man touch you?

    Billy Halleck: What does that have to do with it?

    Leda Rossington: Come on in, Billy.

    [She hands him her drink]

    Leda Rossington: Here, you'll need this.

    [They go inside, she makes herself another drink]

    Leda Rossington: He is in Minnesota, but he's not visiting relatives. He's at the Mayo Clinic.

    Billy Halleck: Leda... there's no such as, uh... gypsy curses.

    Leda Rossington: Who are you trying to convince? Me or yourself? He came up to us as we were coming out of Lazupa's, that place over in Milton. Cary was fried, as usual, hunting for his keys, he never saw the old man coming. I did, I tried to warn him, but it was too late. He touched him, then he whispered something in his ear. Cary claims he didn't what it was. I heard.

    Billy Halleck: What? What did he say?

    Leda Rossington: One word. Lizard. His skin was plating, turning into scales, his evolution in reverse, a sideshow freak.

    [Starting to cry]

    Leda Rossington: Oh, Jesus. He charted a plane to take him to the Mayo, did I tell you that? Because he can't bear to have people look at him. At the end, before he left, his hands were like CLAWS! His eyes were just two bright little specs inside of these deep hollows, like pieces of tin foil! And his nose...!

    Billy Halleck: I have to go to a place, the Glassman Clinic. I have an embolic disorder.

    [He starts to leave, but she forces the door closed]

    Leda Rossington: Oh, why, why did you come here? Why did come here looking for my husband?

    Billy Halleck: I just wanted to compare notes. That's all.

    [He starts to leave again, but she, again, forces the door closed]

    Leda Rossington: What did he say to you? What did the old gyp say to you?

    Billy Halleck: Nothing! Nothing!

    Leda Rossington: I don't believe that! You know what I do believe? I believe it's all your fault, if you hadn't that old lady! You were the one that hit her! YOU, NOT CARY!

    [He slips on out the front door, but she pushes him down to the ground]

    Billy Halleck: Maybe I rode on the fence, but it was your husband you slapped on the whitewash and he was too happy to do it.

    [Throws her drink in his face]

    Leda Rossington: Oh, have a nice stay at the Glassman, Billy. I hear the food's good!

    [Billy gets back up to his feet and begins to head towards his car]

    Billy Halleck: There's no such thing as a gypsy curse.

    [Gets into his car]

    Leda Rossington: YEAH, YOU COME BACK IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER YOU'VE LOST ANOTHER 40 OR 50 POUNDS AND YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU BELIEVE THEN! HA, YEAH! YES, YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU BELIEVE THEN!

    [He drives off as she continues yelling]

    Leda Rossington: YOU HEAR ME? YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU BELIEVE THEN! YOU TELL ME!