'DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own this video nor the image featured in the video nor the music/song. All rights belong to its rightful owner/owner\'s. No Copyright Infringement Intended. ¨Lunch ¨Jan Švankmajer The fetishizing of ¨Food ¨has become a defining theme of Svankmajer’s films. Nowhere does he explore it more than with his unflinchingly gross three act eating affair, Food. Increasingly repulsive with each act: breakfast, lunch and dinner, showing different characters dining in each, the film snowballs into a sordid cannibal banquet. In the second act, Lunch, can also be read politically. Two men, one dressed sharply and one in casual clothes and with shaggy hair, share a table in a café. After failing to catch the waiter’s attention, they hungrily devour the objects around them. Tablecloths, serviettes and plates are all consumed via the magical process of stop-motion animation. Even their clothes are eaten. Whereas the sharply-dressed fellow eats his ‘lunch’ with more finesse, the average man gobbles it like an animal. When everything is consumed the wealthy man tricks his companion into eating his knife and fork too, pretending to swallow his, only to produce them again and use them to cannibalise his buddy. The upper-class character physically consuming his working-class counterpart here is almost slapstick in its satire. We are spared the sight of these mutilations, however, as it cuts to the next act: dinner. This course proves to be even more garish as a table of bourgeois guests devour a banquet of human body parts. (From: http://cinemajam.com/mag/features/jan-svankmajer) ¨The Canon ¨ and Gig in D major for three violins and basso continuo, also known simply as the Canon, is the best-known work of the German composer of baroque music Johann Pachelbel. Pachelbel composed this work around 1680, being originally a work of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo; later arrangements have been made for a great variety of instruments and ensembles. Originally, a jig in the same key (D major) follows the canon, but this last dance is performed or recorded much less frequently. The Canon is well known for the harmonic progression of string instruments, which has made it one of the most reused pieces in contemporary academic music and in Rock.'
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