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Just a Question

posted 18 years ago by fgetce
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Are the girls in the pens being sold "as meat" for evil butcher shops or for Gene Hackman's meat plant?

[–] Godard-7 18 years ago

It's implied that they're sold to men as sex slaves; Poppy tells a story from the orphanage about how they're told they'll have their pick of men when they grow up.

[–] freudified_n_funkified 18 years ago

They aren't being sold to be ingested, they're being sold into bondage.

[–] gary_w_trott 9 years ago

Wasn't there a female character named Clarabelle who was a friend of Lee Marvin? She had a cow name too and I always assumed that in her youth she too was in one of those pens to be auctioned off.

[–] mm1-11 14 years ago

I just watched it again to be sure and I think they are implying the girls are for both. Near the beginning when Lee Marvin first goes to Mary Ann's the nude girls are shown in pins laying on straw with the mooing sound effects in the background. Also Gene Hackman says then, "Cow flesh, girl flesh, it's all the same to me." If they were just for sex why would they be so doped up?

[–] balducci2 14 years ago

Heh. Well, I just watched it today and I am on the "sold into bondage side". They were doped up so that they were easy to control (pretty much a standard technique in human trafficking, at least as represented in the movies).

Hackman was speaking metaphorically when he made his cow flesh / girl flesh comment. Though I have no doubt that Mary Ann would not hesitate to grind one up, say, if she became trouble. But they were being raised for sex bondage.

[–] Jutlander 12 years ago

I think there are far more rich perverts than there are rich cannibals out there.