The Big Shave
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A visceral, claustrophobic meditation on self-destruction and bodily autonomy, using graphic self-mutilation as a metaphor for the violence of war and social conformity.
A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene.
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