This was such a surprising short film. I wasn’t sure what the point to Martin Scorsese’s The Big Shave was at first. OK, a guy shaving. He looks normal enough. What’s the…..oh! Oh my lord! I usually have a strong tolerance for gore in movies, but even this made me squirm in my seat a little.
After seeing it, I understood why Scorsese used the alternate title Viet 67. Much like Vietnam, it started off clean and simple and thought you knew what was going on. But then it got bloody and out of hand, it wasn’t so simple anymore. It was a mess and the reasons that seemed so clear before were now blurred.
Also I thought it was a good point to talk about the juxtaposition between what was happening on screen and the music that went along with it. Usually the music to go along with something so brutal would be much more dramatic, but the music in the film was old timey and happy. It just added to the confusion of what was happening on screen.
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