La Boîte (film)
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La Boîte is a 2006 French low-budget avant-garde horror film written and directed by John Duffy, a.k.a. John.
Plot[edit]
Meursault is a working-class mime, living in France in the year 1932. When performing outside a local cafe, Mersault finds himself infatuated with a women who is enjoying her lunch outside. After failing to ask her on a date, Mersault is consumed by a malevolent force known as ‘The Box.’ It is here, Mersault begins to realise that ‘The Box’ has been with him his entire life, and has separated him from society. The Box is what has prevented him from finding the woman of his dreams. Upon realising this, Mersault begins plotting his murder.
3 hours into the movie Mersault begins to build a real life construction of ‘the box’ using wood and hardware appliances. Upon kidnapping the woman, he murders her and encloses her within the box. In the third act, Mersault buries the women in an undisclosed location and continues his act as a mime on the ground above her. Suddenly, Mersault finds himself unable to move and onlookers believe this in part of the act. After 72 hours Mersault dies of dehydration and decomposes within the ground. The last shot is a tree which has grown over their bodies.
Reception[edit]
Critical reception for the film was mixed. Bloody Disgusting awarded the film a score of 2 / 4 stating, "La Boîte is a well shot and expertly edited work, but it's not a film in the conventional sense. It's more of a vicious visceral experience. Because of the style and the wholesale devotion of the director, La Boîte is captivating, but ultimately not an experience worth having".
La Boîte is listed at #2 in Complex magazine's 50 Most Disturbing Films of All Time and was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Classification due to its graphic scenes of sexual and physical abuse, later surfacing on the deep web in 2012. According to John, this was a 3 hour version that did not include all the scenes from the director's cut. It was later re-released on blu-ray in 2016 when John became mayor of Bayside Town. The film has since gathered a large cult following and is often described by fans as a "misunderstood, timeless classic".
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