Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Autopsy-French Movie with English Subtitle



Eric Mercadier, 45, is a police Lt. at Lyon's SRPJ. He's been married to Anne for more than 20 years. But everything will change when he meets Dr. Emmanuel Rivière. Here "autopsy" (which is the real French name of the movie) doesn't really refer to the post mortem examination (it does since the Dr. Rivière is a coroner) but can be divided in two : "auto" and "psy" which translated in English would mean "self psychology". If it can help understand the end of the movie.

I enjoyed this movie but not the Romeo and Juliet type of ending( tragic). Why? Here is one comment from the reader of the tragic ending.

"I was also shocked senseless by the ending of the movie. Perhaps they killed themselves because the love they had could never be the same again. So they fixed it in one last final moment: death. Sex and violence are often linked in these kind of movies. Love can be a violent (intense) change of awareness. The passion of trying to fulfill it physically can also be violent. He needed more time in the hotel, the next day while fixing the tire their meeting was violent. He was dead and in a rut with his work: he came alive.