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Brilliant and touching

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

An overweight and ugly butcher is sexually involved with his boss and his younger and attractive co-worker, who also likes to film stuff in green nightvision for some reason.Some loser is out there doing who knows what in an office. His mom doesn't think much of him and he's not interested in his girlfriend/wife at all.The attractive butcher girl is somewhat slutty, lets others take advantage of her, and gets herself involved with some animal activist guy. There's a murder I guess, and it turns out the loser is a cop tasked with the investigation. In the end there's something of a twist.Meat features very little dialogue but lots of animal meat/gore which is a bit more perverse and sick than it needs to be. The butcher doesn't do butcher work if you will, instead he cuts up animal carcasses and organs in some gore-porn fashion for the sickos behind the camera. There's some ugly sex among ugly people and mostly unattractive nude bodies. The story seems to be OK...for a short, which this movie sort of is but they just added a bunch of gratuitous animal meat footage as filler and to make up for the absence of dialogue.The ending is puzzling and I'm not sure if it's possible to make sense of the movie after all.

MEAT is a dark surreal thriller with a complex plot and weird characters. It's all very strange from the beginning, because all the characters have unusual behavior and everything is very disconnected and unclear. We don't know who is who and why they're taking those actions. The main plot's topic is a murder that occurs inside a butcher shop but the oddness begins when we notice that the detective and the victim are so identical that they seem to be the same man (it's the same actor that plays both roles)! Then it enters in a quite surreal and bizarre development that not even the end turns it clear and solved… yes, it begins strange and ends even stranger… I liked this mood of mystery and oddness and also some bizarre scenes that occur unexpectedly (like that one when the detective's girlfriend (?) commits suicide, or the urine scene), but the pace is a bit too slow and there're some details that should have been better explained… As other users said it's not a movie for everyone and not be distributed in a commercial circuit because it clearly has an experimental and surreal basis that is materialized in an artsy cinematography and unusual plot. It's the kind of movies you can't figure it all out just seeing it for the first time

'Vlees'(= Dutch for 'meat') is difficult to compare with any film-trend from past or present.Anyway, set in places like a butcher shop and a slaughter-house, its title flawlessly adapts to its contents. This is extended to a considerable amount of human flesh, both male and female. Shown in a not too sophisticated way, one cannot fail to notice that the naked humans from 'Vlees' are clearly not selected for their above-average physical beauty.We continue with this film's plot, if there is any. It looks more like a random collection of facts & happenings, increasingly losing coherence. All set in a slightly dark mood.However, 'Vlees' picturing makes the icing on the cake. We see some surprising scenes that'll stick to your mind. For instance a sex-scene in a shower, filmed from above. Or a psychedelic effect reminding us of the late 19-Sixties, representing the tension proceeding a rape.If there is any categorization possible, I should call 'Vlees' a very Dutch film. With a characteristic direct approach throughout, not too sophisticated and a little crude. Carrying a considerable amount of nudity, and shot without brilliance but with competent craftsmanship.

I saw this Dutch movie at a film festival, and certainly it's not the sort of movie that usually gets a commercial release. It's kind of hard to describe, set mostly in a slaughterhouse (thus the title) it is a mix of surreal dark comedy and experimental film. It's hard to compare with anything, though one might find in it echoes of movies by David Lynch or Peter Greenaway. There is a lot of emphasis in meat (in the cow sense and in the naked human flesh sense) and in bodily functions. There are several gross out scenes, played for laughs. For example, right at the beginning, we have a very obese middle aged man making love in the shower to a very beautiful young blond girl. There is a murder right at the start, and the movie becomes a sort of detective story, though who done it is obviously not very important. The same actor, for example, plays the murdered butcher and the detective (it has this sort of modernist tricks). I am not saying this movie is for everyone or even for most people, but I have to say that I enjoyed this movie and laughed quite a bit at the theater.