I Stand Alone Trailer 1998 Gaspar Noé

Seul contre tous (English title: I Stand Alone or In The Bowels Of France - I Stand Alone) is a 1998 French film, written and directed by Gaspar Noé, and starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain, and Martine Audrain.

The film focuses on several pivotal days in the life of a bitter former butcher as he rages against the world.

The history of the Butcher is narrated through voice-over and a montage of still photographs. Much of the story is shown in greater detail in Noé's 1992 film, Carne, of which this is a sequel. Orphaned at a young age and subsequently abused by a priest, he opens a butcher shop and fathers an autistic daughter with a woman who leaves him because it isn't a boy. He raises his daughter while fighting his incestuous feelings for her. On the day of her first menstrual period, he sees blood on her skirt and stabs an innocent man who he thinks raped her. He is sentenced to prison and forced to sell his butcher shop to a Muslim, and his daughter is put in an institution. He has sex with his prison cellmate, but after being released, he vows to forget it happened. He gets a job working for the fat woman who owns the tavern he used to be drink in. She seduces him, and she becomes pregnant. She sells her business and moves to northern France with him, promising to purchase a butcher shop. It is now 1980.

The Butcher hates his life with his overbearing, overweight mistress. She backs out of her promise to open a butcher shop, forcing him to take a night watchman job at a nursing home. Along with a nurse, he witnesses an elderly patient die, and he ruminates on the pointlessness of life. He fails to capitalize on the nurse's vulnerability, but his mistress accuses him of having an affair nonetheless. He snaps and punches his mistress in the belly several times, very likely killing their unborn child, then steals a pistol and flees.

The Butcher determines to feel no guilt and return to Paris. He rents the same flophouse room where he conceived his daughter and begins looking up his old friends, but they are all too decrepit and poor to help him. The Butcher's interior monologues focus on his hatred of the rich and their exploitation of the lower class. He looks for butcher jobs, but the French economy is in recession and there are no jobs in any related field. After being turned away at a slaughterhouse that once did business with his shop, the Butcher decides to kill the manager. He plots the murder at a local tavern, but is ejected from the bar at gunpoint after squabbling with the owner's son. The Butcher finds that he has only three bullets in his gun, and begins assigning them to each of his various enemies.

He eventually decides to see his daughter. After meeting her at the asylum in which she is a patient, he takes her back to his room and hesitates, looking at his gun. He contemplates having sex with and then killing his daughter. The movie returns to the moment of the Butcher's hesitation. He puts the gun away, resolving to be good, and tearfully embraces his daughter. He then again contemplates having sex with her in the same manner as he did with her mother. Standing at a window, he unzips his daughter's jacket and begins fondling her. His interior monologue asserts that their love is more pure because the world condemns it.

Most of the film's dialogue is the Butcher's interior monologue, spoken in voice-over.

The camera is usually stationary throughout the film, but this trend is sometimes contrasted by abrupt, rapid movements of the camera. The sudden movements are always accompanied by a loud sound effect, usually an explosive gunshot. A notable exception is the final crane shot, which moves gently away from the Butcher's window and turns to look down an empty street.

The film frequently cuts to title cards that display a variety of messages. The cards often repeat a notable word spoken by the Butcher, such as "Morality" and "Justice". At the film's climax, a "Warning" title card counts down 30 seconds under the pretext of giving viewers an opportunity to stop watching and avoid the remainder of the film.

The film is a sequel to Noé's short film Carne. The Butcher also makes a cameo appearance at the beginning of Irréversible, Noe's follow-up to I Stand Alone. In a drunken monologue, the Butcher reveals that he was arrested for having sex with his daughter.

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[camargohugo]

Amazing movie from an amazing director.

[SacrosanctPariah]

The trailer hardly does the film justice.

It's a masterpiece of it's kind.

I weep for the majority of Americans who mindlessly watch explosion after explosion and think that's what film is all about.

Film is an art, it makes you think, and touches many emotions that you don't even know where there.

This is a work of art.

[SrVnDaNk]

Fuck this movie.

[TheFilmCuts]

I like the part of the film that says: "Living is a selfish act, surviving is a genetic law"

[AlvesOS]

If underground was mainstream when it comes to movies, i assure we would live in a better world.

[AlvesOS]

@Johnlindsey289 Yes, but this one has someone special... Some sort of dark feeling, squeezes your chest, feels unconfortable from start to end.

[Donte8732]

@Johnlindsey289 sick sick film man

[Johnlindsey289]

@AlvesOS

Seen Serbian Film?

[Johnlindsey289]

Shocking stuff, but Irreversible was worse

[Steelidea]

This movie as much as I loved it, with a decent budget would be so amazing.

[gravelgravel2]

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