IMAGERY AND REFERENCES

Spaghetti Westerns and war films of the sixties are both the source and reference of this quest. The films directed by Sergio Corbucci, such as THE MERCENARY (1968) and DJANGO (1966), Enzo G. Castellari’s INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (1978), Jose Luis Merino’s HELL COMMANDOS (1970), Bitto Albertini’s WAR DEVILS or THE LEOPARDS OF WAR (1969), are all perfect examples in which in each single sequence we find all fetishes explored in this documentary combined: BOOTS, UNIFORMS and DEATH, creating perfect sceneries and attires for an unnamable fetishist pleasure:
TO LIVE THE RIDICULE as starting point towards the ORGASM.

It would be virtually impossible to stimulate this passion in a casual fashion. Any old sort of boots, uniforms or even a banal way of dying would not be compatible with this fetish.
This death has in itself to transcend not only the violence of the act, but it also has to have an incisive touch of the ridiculous in the embarrassment and humiliation: a soldier smugly sure of his virility and arrogant power is surprised by a burst of machine gun fire and preposterous and impotent he falls dead in a hail of fire.