[2][...]the film portrays the erotic impulse of everyday life as a wild, chaotic, antisocial force that lends people their sense of individuality.
[3]But Svankmajer's vision is much more than a surrealistic rendering of standard Freudian notions of repression and sublimation.[...] their unquenchable perversity also unites them in a shared resistance to the puritanical conformism of Eastern European culture (or at least that culture before the fall of Communism).
