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The Big Shave

Original English version
Poster
The Big Shave
Director
Martin Scorsese
Cast
Peter Bernuth (Young Man)
Plot Outline

This short film is a metaphor for the Vietnam War. A man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom, concentrating on the polished porcelain and shiny metal motif. He then proceeds to shave. When his face is clean, however, he only continues to shave until he pierces through his skin. Blood covers him and falls around him, the red contrasting the perfect spotlessness of the bathroom. The film is a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War.

Genre
Short film
Runtime
6 minutes
Production country
US
Released
1967
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