Taxidermia (2006) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll
show you a horror-drama film: "Taxidermia "! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins during World War II. An orderly working in a Hungarian military base,
is desperately warming himself up, by sticking a candle close to his skin. He lives in a tiny
shack near the base, and always struggles with the cold. But later on, he moves the candle close
to his private parts, attempting to roast his smelly sausage and derive pleasure from this.
The next day, he walks to a frozen well in the base to get some water. He quickly looks around,
to see if there's anyone else in the vicinity. Upon seeing that the area is empty,
he unzips his pants, and sticks his private part in the freezing water, attempting to
make a sausage ice cream. This is yet another of his strange proclivities. A second later,
the orderly's lieutenant appears, and catches him in his embarrassing act. The lieutenant
makes him recite all the arduous tasks he has to do today, in an effort to intimidate him. This
list of tasks includes chopping firewood, cleaning the muck, and feeding the pig.
Finally, the lieutenant threatens to shoot his lip off, if he slacks in his job.
Later that day, the orderly chops wood and delivers hot water to the bathroom. Inside
are the lieutenant's two young daughters taking a bath. As lascivious as ever, the orderly sneakily
peeks at the two women through the window. When the two women are done, the orderly returns
to the bathroom. He bends his face to the dirty bathwater inside the tub,
tastes their hormone smell, and imagines all the activities performed in the bathtub.
Sometime later, the orderly spies the two daughters having a snowball fight outside
his shack. He's once again driven by his dark impulses. He watches them through the wooden
slats of his shack, and pleasures himself by sticking out his private part. However,
a passing chicken mistakes his smelly sausage for a fat worm, and pecks at it hard,
causing him to scream in pain. That night, the orderly opens a book of
fairytales. He closes his eyes, and visualizes the tale of the little match girl. Again,
he derives pleasure from imagining himself as the savior of the match girl.
The next day, the orderly slaughters the pig they keep in the base.
After killing the animal, he removes its innards, burns its skin off, and prepares it for eating.
While the lieutenant's family feasts on the pig, he miserably sits by the window.
The lieutenant shows the orderly a rare display of kindness,
by giving him a candle to keep him warm. The orderly takes the pig carcass, and lays it
out on the floor of his shack. He then imagines that he's sleeping with the lieutenant's wife,
while he does some smelly work-out on the pig carcass. When morning comes, the lieutenant
drops by his shack, and sees the orderly naked and lying on the pig bones. Without hesitation,
he shoots the orderly's head off. Months later, the lieutenant's wife
inexplicably gives birth to a son, that has a pig's tail sticking out of his back.
It is implied that the son is a result of the weird fantasy, that the orderly had that night.
The lieutenant decides to raise the son as his own; but first, he removes the GPS tail.
He names the son, Kálmán. Some years pass, and Hungary emerges from the war as a Soviet country.
The world is now embroiled in the Cold War. During this time period, the now full-grown
Kálmán finds his passion as a speed eater. He has a large body, and an even larger appetite.
Kálmán joins a speed-eating competition that brings multiple countries together.
He's representing Hungary along with his friend. After the first round, he and the other
contestants throw up the huge amounts of food they consumed. He's currently ranked second; but that
is not enough for his overbearing coach. Kálmán makes a bet with his competitor that
whoever wins the competition that day, will take home the women's speed-eating champion, Ms Fatty.
The second round starts, and Kálmán gives his best as he consumes a mountain of food.
However, he experiences a brutal lockjaw; and he faints in the middle of the round.
He ends up getting taken to the hospital for surgery. Luckily, Ms Fatty visits him to cheer
up his spirits. Kálmán is also informed that his fellow Hungarian friend had won yesterday.
Kálmán and Ms Fatty eventually end up together. On their wedding day,
Ms Fatty almost runs off with Kálmán's friend. But Kálmán serenades her with a love song;
and Ms Fatty is persuaded to stay with him. Years later, speed-eating as a formal sport,
no longer commands the same respect as it once did. Kálmán is still training with his coach, but
he can no longer keep up with his international competitors. Despite this, his coach urges him to
keep on training and improving his skills, so that when speed-eating is recognized as
a sport again, he can become a star. They discover that Ms Fatty is pregnant.
She works in a canning factory, and represents it when she competes in speed-eating competitions.
But since she is pregnant, the doctor recommends that she be transferred to another division.
The couple takes a vacation to celebrate. They frolic on the beach, and have fun in
an amusement park. They are also invited to a party on a yacht, where they are invited to
showcase their speed-eating process. Ms Fatty and Kálmán have to eat a huge plate of beans.
But since Ms Fatty is pregnant, and has to throw up multiple times, she begins feeling sick.
After a break, she proceeds to finish eating the huge plate of beans.
She's now sweating bullets, and looks pale. Out of nowhere, Ms Fatty faints.
It turns out, she is already in labor. Kálmán takes his wife to the hospital, and she gives
birth to a boy nick-named Son-Skinny. Despite both of his parents having large physiques,
the boy is very thin. Kálmán remarks that he doesn't care, and that he is their son.
More years pass, and the tall, blond, and unnaturally thin son grows up to become a
taxidermist. Inside his store, there are lots of animal skins and taxidermy.
After his workday, he closes his shop, and goes to the grocery store to pick up some things. He has
a crush on one of the cashiers there. Hoping he can crush his hormones on her someday, he keeps on
asking her out, despite her refusal each time. Later on, he goes to a cafe, and gets a cup of
coffee. No one really interacts with him. Son-Skinny eventually goes to visit his father
Kálmán. Ms Fatty had left them years before to be a coach, and Kálmán is Son-Skinny's only remaining
family now. But embittered by his failure to make it as a speed-eating champion, Kálmán let himself
become morbidly obese. He just sits on a chair in his dirty apartment, unable to move because
of his weight. Half the time, he just mumbles old speed-eating instructions from his coach.
Kálmán actually prefers his pet cats to his own son. Since his father can no longer move,
Son-Skinny is the one who has to feed the cats, and clean their cage every day. He
also changes his father's urinal, as he dozes in front of the television.
Back in his shop, Son-Skinny works on removing the skin of a dead gorilla, and stuffing it.
One day, a rich doctor comes to his shop. He enlists Son-Skinny's services for a
small domestic animal to be stuffed. He is also interested in a stuffed bat, but
Son-Skinny tells him that it's not for sale. After work, Son-Skinny follows the same routine.
He goes to the grocery store, and attempts to flirt with the cashier, who is creeped out by him.
He then goes to his father's apartment to feed his fat cats, and clean their spacious cage.
While he's cleaning, Kálmán shares that he can eat hundreds of chocolate bars per hour, and he
can even swallow the silver foil wrapper. Suddenly, Kálmán shouts that he's ashamed of
Son-Skinny, for being too thin and weak to be a speed eater. He also thinks that
Son-Skinny's profession as a taxidermist is too disgusting. Fed up with his father's cruelty,
he argues with Kálmán, and tells him that he is the one paying for his father's gluttony.
The son adds that his mother was right to leave him, because he's so heartless that he has
driven away everyone, who ever cared about him. Son-Skinny vows that he will never come to his
father's apartment and help him out ever again. Kálmán reaches out to slap his son in the face,
and Son-Skinny retaliates by shoving all the chocolate bars at him. He turns off the light, and
angrily storms out of the apartment, not noticing that he has left the cats' cage door unlocked.
Hurt by his father's comments about his appearance, Son-Skinny immediately signs up for
a gym membership. He trains with a coach, so he can build his muscles, and not be skinny anymore.
The training regimen is grueling, and he almost passes out from fatigue.
Later, he gets an order from the same doctor customer. The animal that the doctor wanted him
to taxidermy, is not an animal at all, but an unborn fetus. Still, a customer is a customer,
so Son-Skinny goes about his work as usual. Later that day, he goes to the grocery store to
pick up the usual things. The female cashier is no longer there, probably because she got too creeped
out by his incessant advances. As hateful as his father is, Son-Skinny Realizes that his father
is the only person who can tolerate him. As a result, his anger at his father simmers down,
and he's now willing to patch things up. Son-Skinny goes to his father's apartment. When
he gets inside, he calls out to Kálmán. But his father does not respond. Son-Skinny walks into the
dark living room. The TV is still on, but Kálmán is already dead. His stomach was ripped open,
and his innards were splayed out on the floor in front of him. His obese body is pale,
and drained of blood. Son-Skinny's gaze follows the trail of blood, and he realizes that he has
left the cage door unlocked, the last time he was there. As a result, Kálmán's cats got out and
killed him. They then devoured his internal organs afterward, because they were too hungry.
Son-Skinny takes his father's body back to his shop. He removes all his remaining flesh
and internal organs, and hollows his body out. He then injects chemicals into his father's skin,
and starts preparing his body for taxidermy. For Son-Skinny, this is the best honor he
can bestow unto his father, who had prided himself on his huge speed-eating body.
Afterward, Son-Skinny straps himself inside a metal harness.
He hooks his body up to an anesthetic drip, and then turns on a heart-lung machine.
Son-Skinny then begins with an incision in his ribcage. He carefully removes his organs one by
one, and soaks them in chemicals. He slowly sifts through his cartilage and muscles with a scalpel.
Finally, he pumps his body full of chemicals, so he can preserve it in its current state.
He is being kept alive by the heart-lung machine, as he does this macabre taxidermy on himself.
Son-Skinny closes up the incision he had made on his ribcage.
He presses a button on the surgical harness, and the machine abruptly decapitates him.
Another blade swiftly comes down, and proceeds to hack off his limbs.
Sometime later, the doctor comes by Son-Skinny's shop to pick up his order.
He wanders inside the empty store, and sees the finished fetus, preserved in a keychain
as he requested. The doctor walks deeper inside the shop to look for Son-Skinny.
He passes by all the bones, equipment, and fur that make up the strange man's business.
Eventually, the doctor wanders inside the secret room, and stumbles upon
the masterpiece of Son-Skinny's final act. What Son-Skinny did to his father's corpse and
himself, is so shocking that sometime later, the taxidermied bodies become part of an art exhibit.
The museum used to house it, is grand, with glowing white walls and opulent decorations.
All the guests who came for the opening of the exhibit, are decked out in expensive white clothes
to match the interior. The doctor is standing on a balcony, overlooking everything. He's speaking
into a microphone, and recounting what happened that fateful day, when he stepped into that room.
Beside him is a woman translating everything he says into English.
He describes how he saw the machine decapitate Son-Skinny's head, and then his arm.
In the center of the exhibit is Kálmán's large body propped up on a pedestal. His protruding
belly spills out of his fur robes, while his cats' taxidermied bodies are perched on him.
Son-Skinny had preserved his father and his cats, and then killed himself because he couldn't bear
being truly alone in the world. The doctor muses that maybe Son-Skinny preserved his body as well,
because he wanted to leave something behind, that would defy time, and possibly wanted
the western world to see how humanity is distorted under the Soviet Union regime.
The movie ends with a shot focusing on Son-Skinny's preserved body in the exhibit.
His skin has taken on a marble-like gray pallor, and the way that his head
and arm were severed, makes his body look like a Roman statue.
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