We are all pigs..really!

American movies will tell you what a wonderful time we all are having. French movies will tell you what a fucked up world we are living in.

Chaos is a French movie and it clearly isn't saying anything postive about our modern world. More specifically, what this movie is saying is: "Men are pigs." So, hear my dear Ayush and Subhamoy , we are all pigs!

For the plot summary, check out this. I will only write about what I think was interesting about the movie.

Here is how the movie starts off -
An upper-middle-class French couple Paul and Helene are driving to a party when an Algerian hooker named Malika (Rachida Brakni) runs into them and asks for help as two men (her pimps) bang her head against their car windshield. But there is a party to attend and Paul is just too damn worried about his expensive car to bother and so, they just drive to the car wash leaving Malika on the street. But Helene actually has a heart and so, she quickly dials for an ambulance just before the car-wash and then visits Malika in the hospital a couple of days later.

Some of the things that should be pointed out:

(1) Paul has an old mother who keeps bringing him freshly-made walnut oil and obviously misses him a lot, but he does not like her much. But as we know, he is a pig.

(2) Paul and Helene have a college-going son named Fabrice (Aurélien Wiik) who is juggling two
girlfriends and gets way too much money from his parents in allowance. In the looks department, he resembles Adam Brody who plays the character of Seth in The OC on Fox. Anyway, both are assholes and I wish they get eaten up by hungry wolves

(3) Helene is a nice, polite, and an obedient wife, mother and working professional. (Translation: she is getting treated like shit and doesn't know it; but she realizes it soon once she meets our heroine Malika in the hospital)

(4) Malika was sold off to an old Algerian guy by her father in marriage but she managed to escape and gets caught by a pimp who treat her like shit. There are lots of twists and turns here in the story but what you really need to know is that somehow she manages to learn the tricks
of online stock trading and secret Swiss bank accounts. The pimps find out about it and she runs for her life before colliding with Paul's car (Actually the part about her getting rich sounded a bit implausible and something out of a Bollywood movie plot to me but that aspect is not so important for the appreciation of the movie)

(5) Helene and Malika become friends and they start kicking some ass. In fact, every asshole (all of them males of course) gets his ass kicked one way or the other - Paul, the son Fabrice, the pimps, Malika's father - but not in the bombs-exploding, bullets-flying and cars-crashing Hollywood kind of way. These are clever chicks, they are French and they have got brains!

(6) Helene and Malika manage to rescue Malika's younger sister Zora from her father towards the end. So, thats the 'happy ending' for those who care for it.

(7) Acting in the movie is great. Both the actresses (playing Malika and Helene) are pretty damn good.

(8) Apart from "men are pigs" lesson, the other lesson I learnt was: "Love is dead." As Paul (Vincent Lindon) says "Love exists only in magazines. I have got 15 girls who are ready to lick me all over!" And then there is that scene where Hélène (Catherine Frot) asks Malika: "Will you ever love someone?" and what does Malika have to say: "Love or fuck?" So, thats it. Love is BS, fucking is the truth.

(9) The "men are pigs" theory holds true for men of any color - white or brown, French or Arab. Our heroine Malika has this to say about her Arab brothers: "With one shitty motorbike, their honor melts away along with their religion." To which Malika's younger sister Zora says: "You are full of hate."

......Oh my dear Zora, so am I......Little Zora, you are quite young and you will know better when you grow up.....I am 24. I hate my coworkers, I hate my neighbours, I hate the clueless bubbleheads in my gym, I hate the fucking-waste-of-time-fags I have dated and I won't shed a tear if they all get killed in a bomb blast tomorrow!

I liked this movie very much.

Also, Aishwarya Rai fans please note: This movie is being remade in Hollywood with TMBWITW playing the hooker and Meryl Streep playing the role of the bourgeoise wife.