Extension du domaine de la lutte (1999)
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Philippe Harel, Jose Garcia, Catherine Mouchet, Cécile Reigher
A disillusioned man’s growing misogyny begins to draw his less romantically experienced colleague into his dark thoughts.
The story
Still reeling from a breakup and disillusioned with modern society, a man known only as Our Hero grows increasingly misogynistic amid repeated frustrations with women and difficulty forming relationships. On a business trip, he travels with his colleague Raphaël Tisserand, who has less experience in romantic relationships. As Our Hero sinks further into dark thoughts, he draws Tisserand along with him.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
A man (simply called Our Hero), disillusioned with modern society and still reeling from a breakup, grows more misogynistic by the day, following repeated frustrations with women and his inability to form normal relationships with them. On a business trip with his colleague Raphaël Tisserand, who is less experienced than he is in romantic relationships, he sinks further into dark thoughts, taking his colleague along with him. At a nightclub one evening, Our Hero urges Tisserand to replace his attempts at seduction with violence and hands him a knife. Tisserand later dies in a car accident, which plunges the protagonist even deeper into depression. While staying in a psychiatric hospital, he continues to rant against women and society, rejecting its stereotyped values (a hierarchy of domination through power among men, and a hierarchy of seduction among women). Even so, the film ends on a positive note: Our Hero takes dance lessons and finds himself face to face with a woman who is considerably taller than he is and smiles at him.
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