(Sigh!) This is not really a crime drama. It is another futile attempt for Euro existentialists to find meaning in life, especially for a man with no balls. Only an existentialist would even need to ask such a question, since most of them have their minds located in that area in the first place.
Jacky, the son of a beef farmer who likes to inject massive hormones into his animals, loses his twin-boys to a sex-obsessed adolescent son-of-a-mafia-boss named Bruno when he was only around 8 (in a particularly nasty scene involving Jacky's private parts and two rocks!). No one could do anything about the aforementioned nut-cracking incident, so it was filed away as an accident, despite the fact that Jacky's bff, Deiderick, was an eyewitness to the event.
The family doctor especially emphasizes to his parents the importance of little Jacky now being diligent to develop his secondary male attributes through massive hormone supplements, since his primary male attribute is gone with the wind.
Jacky is secretly obsessed with Bruno's sister, Lucia, although he obviously has no means to follow through on his attraction to her. Alas!
Jacky grows up to be a kind of human beef critter himself (hence the title), constantly experimenting with male hormone supplements, seeking to maximize his secondary male attributes to compensate for the lack of his primary one. He becomes a family muscle thug, threatening customers who don't like his father's chemically enhanced cows into buying them anyway.
One intrigue follows another into a tangled web, involving the killing of a cop, the tires from a BMW 5 class, Deiderick's gay lust for a cop named Anthony, Jacky's quest for the perfect men's cologne, etc. I'll leave you to figure out how it all makes any kind of sense.
Late in the film, we see that Bruno the ball-buster has somehow grown up to be an institutionalized human veggie, although I have no idea how he got that way (perhaps I missed it in the subtitles). His sister still visits him, although we wonder why, since he spent most of their childhood (when he wasn't crushing testicles between rocks, that is) trying to force her to be his hooker-for-hire. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Anyway, I was barely able to stay awake for the exciting conclusion, where Jacky finally talks to Lucia, goes into her bathroom and infuses himself with every male hormone known to chemistry, and then commits suicide by cop in Lucia's apartment building elevator.
The film closes with a close-up of Jacky as an 8-year-old, and a fade to black with closing credits. Whatever!
When will existentialists realize that life does not get its meaning from balls, hormones, suicide, or anything else of the kind. Life is meaningful only in reference to the Sovereign Creator and our humble service to Him in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Jacky, the son of a beef farmer who likes to inject massive hormones into his animals, loses his twin-boys to a sex-obsessed adolescent son-of-a-mafia-boss named Bruno when he was only around 8 (in a particularly nasty scene involving Jacky's private parts and two rocks!). No one could do anything about the aforementioned nut-cracking incident, so it was filed away as an accident, despite the fact that Jacky's bff, Deiderick, was an eyewitness to the event.
The family doctor especially emphasizes to his parents the importance of little Jacky now being diligent to develop his secondary male attributes through massive hormone supplements, since his primary male attribute is gone with the wind.
Jacky is secretly obsessed with Bruno's sister, Lucia, although he obviously has no means to follow through on his attraction to her. Alas!
Jacky grows up to be a kind of human beef critter himself (hence the title), constantly experimenting with male hormone supplements, seeking to maximize his secondary male attributes to compensate for the lack of his primary one. He becomes a family muscle thug, threatening customers who don't like his father's chemically enhanced cows into buying them anyway.
One intrigue follows another into a tangled web, involving the killing of a cop, the tires from a BMW 5 class, Deiderick's gay lust for a cop named Anthony, Jacky's quest for the perfect men's cologne, etc. I'll leave you to figure out how it all makes any kind of sense.
Late in the film, we see that Bruno the ball-buster has somehow grown up to be an institutionalized human veggie, although I have no idea how he got that way (perhaps I missed it in the subtitles). His sister still visits him, although we wonder why, since he spent most of their childhood (when he wasn't crushing testicles between rocks, that is) trying to force her to be his hooker-for-hire. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Anyway, I was barely able to stay awake for the exciting conclusion, where Jacky finally talks to Lucia, goes into her bathroom and infuses himself with every male hormone known to chemistry, and then commits suicide by cop in Lucia's apartment building elevator.
The film closes with a close-up of Jacky as an 8-year-old, and a fade to black with closing credits. Whatever!
When will existentialists realize that life does not get its meaning from balls, hormones, suicide, or anything else of the kind. Life is meaningful only in reference to the Sovereign Creator and our humble service to Him in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.