Happy End (1967)
Genre: Black Comedy | Crime | Surreal
Country: Czechoslovakia | Director: Oldrich Lipský
Language: Czech | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 72mn
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061029/
Audio 2: A Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Kat Ellinger and Ben Buckingham
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an “execution” of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
Happy end tells the life story of a butcher named Bedřich Frydrych; however, it is told entirely in reverse, giving rise to a different story than the one a forward-flowing narrative would depict. It thus begins with Bedřich’s “birth” (his execution by guillotine), followed by a “childhood” spent in school (prison), whereupon he sets out into the world and soon marries, although he has to assemble his wife-to-be from various parts (killing and dismembering her, after finding out she is having an affair).
The reversed chronology also applies to dialogue: lines are read in an ostensibly reversed order, variously resulting in sheer situational comedy and dada.
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