The Untold Story (Human Meat Roast Pork Buns

It was interesting to view yet another film that centered on the idea of human cannibalism so close to my viewing of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. While perhaps shocking upon it's release I found that Texas Chainsaw's impact lessoned slightly by the presence of the many imitators that followed it in the coming years. This peaked my interest as I was interested to see what a different culture would do when telling a story that focused on the same subject matter as Texas Chainsaw. While many of the films kills were done in a graphic manner, such as the chopstick scene, the films most shocking moment comes in the form of a child murder. In the film we see an entire family murdered including the children, while this is something that may be implied in an American movie I'm hard pressed to think of any Hollywood film that has displayed child murder to the extent this film did. The killings leave little to be implied as we see children strangled, slashed and beheaded in quick succession. The scene while shocking was a great example of the difference in cultures when it come to art in general. The fact that this kind of violence is Taboo in American film makes the killings all the more impactful to an American audience who is not used to violence against children in film. This was the kind of visceral shock I expected from watching Texas chainsaw but never received. By exiting the American realm of film we are able to experience stories not molded to the design of past stories we are familiar with giving us the ability to experience stories that can truly suprise us.