polish film maker walerian borowczyk la bête ( french and 1975 and aka the beast ) be among the most controversial and brave film ever make and a very excellent one too . this film tell everything that generally be hide and deny about our nature and our sexual nature in particular with the symbolism and silence of it image . the image may look wild and perverse and sick or exciting and but they be all in relation with the lastly mention . sex and desire and death be very strong and primary thing and dominate all the flesh that have a human soul inside it . they interest and temptate u so powerfully ( and by our nature ) that they be consider scary and unacceptable and something too wild to be true . a sophisticated young woman travel with her mother to a french countryside to meet her soon to become husband whom with she have have a letter affair of some kind . all be very exciting and each others parent and relative wait impatiently to see the new people arrive to their family . the innocence of the young bride shine through and no one know what can happen and wake up inside the wall of the big and beautiful french mansion and with all it human and animal and and a mysterious la bête that turn out to be something that the character and nor most of the film audience and could have never imagine to be real and ( in front of ) them . the film be about the same theme a canadian david cronenberg debyt feature shiver ( 1975 ) and which happen inside a huge luxury building in which destructive and gory parasite spread from human to human by sexual contact and make people act furiously and violently in their lust for pleasure and fulfilment of instinct . human have instinct that can be and be strong than his will and that be why those instinct can be a dangerous and powerful a the instinct of some other animal and a beast and be it a lust for blood and revenge or sex and carnal pleasure . human be only animal that have intelligence and tool to convey it but because we be also animal and that intelligence be not always use too much a can be see anywhere around u . the film open greatly and and very shockingly for most hypocritic attitude and show a horny male horse rag in fury a he wait to get inside the mare and continue the race and but the rage and visible lust we see from his eye and violent movement be the key element of that beginning and why it be there and not the close ups of organ a could be so easily claim . the horse be a beast that battle in an almost unbearable heat and in heat that much strong than his will a he doesn not have any control at that point anymore . the power of the instinct make an animal a beast . after the memorable beginning and the character get introduce and and the film fantastically have all the necessary age group inside it from the little innocent child wait to grow up and develop to their blossom and to the adult and elder that all represent their own part of the lifespan and create the face of human life on screen . a film doesn not necessarily need more character this way a all the important one be already there and represent the whole race and include the urban and countryside inhabitant and and both sex . the mansion make the protagonist girl sexuality wake a she saw the horse couple and act like she obviously have never think of . for the first time she see something unique and something that excite and feel almost vital for her and her body and like get water when youre very thirsty . the transformation of the girl be a very important element in the film a she have live unaware of these thing inside her and with his mother and camera and a letter boyfriend and even though the thing have just wait for the moment to burst out . flesh desire flesh and that belong to be a humanimal and but still those thing be not so easily admit everywhere and film like these try to depict it get ban for decade . man stupidity and unwillingness to interpret image must not be an argument for a film be ban or otherwise violate . the film last 30 minute be also as important a the beginning and and once again show how powerful cinema be without needless word and talk . a the girl and audience realize what her body start to feel and desire and she start to have dream about the mysterious beast that turn out to be none other than the undressed form of ourselves and have live in the wood without other people or beast near him . the dream sequence be the one that cause and cause most of the controversy alongside the film overall straight and honest attitude and and the image be so easy to be judge a perverse and pornographic and without a courage to go deeply into them and character reaction and thought behind what we see . the image be excite in her dream and also eventually inside the dream for the dream ( more ) human character and and borowczyk force u to admit it with the image that be so close to a normal sexual act between a man and a female and which be a beautiful thing and expression of love and another human need . also the numerous and and cleverly blackly humorous love making scene inside the mansion and between the young mother and the black servant and get interrupt many time a someone scream for the servant and for example and and there no doubt that the sensual image of two young human body be together and be interrupt with an angry shout at least doesn not become any more pleasant by the interruption . borowczyk have manage to paint his image so beautiful and sensitive that his message be almost impossible to be misunderstand and but nothing seem to be impossible for our culture and mind that criticize art . he use dialogue only when it necessary and otherwise the image do the job and make the film powerful . death be also there and a flesh dy sooner or later and after year of life and instinct and it die . the end be inevitable but the meaning of the dream sequence could have also be a powerful without the kind of dramatic and reveal end too . another blackly humorous element come when we see the shocked city woman run out of the place in which they saw a little more than they be look for . they visit the mansion of truth about flesh and u and them . the film remind me of french writer george bataille story of the eye with it same theme about eroticism and death and how they both be always connect to the nature of our flesh . the book be well write and fantastic as well a this film and and naturally both have be blame for their too explicit content and other equally noteworthy shallow comment . borowczyk film be also very beautiful visually alongside it raw honesty and and the nature and forest have rarely look so bright and shin a they do in this film . the sun shine through the tree and and to everyplace where human live and and the beauty of it be always there and but so be the ugliness that originate by the inhabitant of the world . to every innocent white sheep there a selfish and evil and horrible beast in our world and that be why the intelligence we have be give never fully seem to overcome the power of our bad instinct and the other side of the sheep and present inside every human soul . it be about how many manages to keep the dark side passive and not active . the fulfilment of some of our instinct be not a bad thing and and by use this intelligence and see which of the instinct be good and which bad and they can be satisfy without exploitation and violence and the lethal and destructive circle create by it . human be not more than an animal with intelligence and intelligence that be so easy to be forget and eat to the background by thing that feel good and more satisfying at each and perhaps sudden moment . borowczyk film be a masterpiece and unforgettable and clever piece of magical cinema with ageless theme and also an example of how much can be achieve and express and give by a film maker and who be also only a human .