Les souffrances dun oeuf meurtri

A surrealist saga in four parts 1 The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries 2 Etoiledirectly referring to Cocteau Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a starfish and then giving birth to a smaller starfish A statement of inadequacy To give birth involves an emasculation and a loss of vitality 3 Corpstwo images of a man on a couch groping for each other watched by a mysterious peeping Tom As the two superimposed images come together the heavy breathing subsidesthe statement that the birth of desire is a self realisation 4 Hymen The decaying body of a girl is shot through green filters and the final image reveals her vagina crawling with maggots and overlain with a crucifix A representation of Catholicism preventing the free expression of desire