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Delicatessen

Long Pork, anyone?

A 1991 French Black Comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic apartment building in a France of an ambiguous time period, and focuses on the tenants of the apartment building and their desperate bids to survive. The protagonist, a former circus artist named Louison, arrives to replace a tenant whose reason for departure is initially unclear. However, it is gradually revealed that the building owner, Clapet, is luring unemployed people to murder them and use them as a source of food for his tenants. Louison's only salvation relies on Julie, Clapet's daughter who doesn't agree with his father's actions and is also in love with Louison, and a vegetarian rebel group known as the Troglodistes, who agrees to assist Julie in exchange of food supply.

Delicatessen provides examples of:

After the End: Vaguely.
Crapsack World
Driven to Suicide: Poor Aurore...
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Clapet loves his daughter and tries the best to make her happy, despite she is greatly against his methods of feeding the tenants.
I'm a Humanitarian: Humanitarianism seems to have had an unexpected surge in popularity After the End.
La Résistance: The Troglodistes.
The Immodest Orgasm: Resounds all through the house.
Meganekko: Julie.
Trash the Set
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