尸体防腐员欧罗柯

Documented between 1996 and 2001 by pinku eiga director/professional corpse photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, Orozco The Embalmer is a unflinching ninety minute documentary that explores the work of former police inspector turned embalmer, Froilan Orozco. A middle aged man suffering from some health problems, Orozco claims to have embalmed thousands of bodies, an average of five per day going under his knife. Based in El Cartucho, a small part of Bogota, Columbia which is rampant with violent crime and drug abuse, Orozco works at a small, run down funeral home right across the road from the local medical center, he’s never in need of work and seems to have a constant stream of corpses to deal with.


　　There isn’t really a plot to discuss, the film is a simple collection of vignettes showing Orozco at work with some clips spliced in that show what the neighborhood he works in is like. Tsurisaki’s camera, unsurprisingly, leaves nothing to the imagination and none of what you see in this documentary is faked. Corpses are cut open quickly, their innards removed, their torsos cleaned out and chemically treated. At one point a face is pulled back from the skull and the cranial cavity stuffed with paper to help slow down decomposition. The skin that makes up the face is then pulled back into place, the body is literally tossed into a coffin, make up then applied as some sort of last touch.


　　As Orozco goes about his work it’s easy to see how jaded he is. A man literally surrounded by death, he talks openly and nonchalantly to anyone who comes into his embalming room, even going so far as to ask one girl out. This is very much just a job to him, he doesn’t really seem to feel much for his victims, though at one point when the corpse of an infant is brought in you can’t really tell if he’s referring to the deceased child as ‘a little shit’ because of disdain or out of duress. Orozco goes about his business with almost ruthless efficiency, cutting and cleaning as quickly as a butcher would dress a cow for display in his shop window. As such, he’s developed a reputation as one of the best in the business, at least regionally. As the film plays out, we meet his assistant and also some of the competition, all of whom have their own odd personality quirks and traits.


　　Tsurisaki shoots the film exploitatively, capturing the removed organs in close up and making sure that the deceased subjects genitals are easy to see and sometimes right up front in the shot. The film is quite shocking and bound to upset sensitive viewers, but at the same times it’s a very powerful picture. It’s as much a personality piece, if not more, than it is a collection of corpse footage but there’s little doubt that the film will be remembered as a character study before it’ll be remembered for its shock value. Nothing is hidden from the viewer, there are no clever editing tricks here to hide the more unsettling visuals from the lens. The cinematography is as blunt as Orozco’s delivery, and while the film, obviously made on a low budget and with limited means, is rough around the edges despite its flaws it offers fascinatingly grim insight into the realities of the death ritual.

最后都能体面的离开人世，令人感动的职业；没想到下载了这么久，今天就是看的最好时机

这才是电影史上最恐怖最让人毛骨悚然的电影，它的恐怖在于让我们看到了死亡本身，人死了以后真的就跟被分类的湿垃圾一样

好简陋好粗鄙好直面死亡的肮脏腥臭与真实……

或许只有走进它，才会更加珍惜活着的人生吧。但这样露骨的方式，真的不敢恭维

日本来拍的话，不正和“百日观”对应么。重口在于这是纪录片不是什么刺激可怕的虐杀片。和“一种死亡记录”、“尸体变化图鉴”搭配观看挺好的。

Orozco一生处理了超过50000具尸体，而自己死后不仅无人给自己整理仪容，连一座坟都没有

无关乎恐怖，死亡就是这么贴近，只是你忽然直面的时候感到惊讶不已，甚至反胃。但这也无法让你否认从身体上我们几乎没有任何区别，那只是个蜗牛的壳子而已，悲惨又现实

如果你对尸体感兴趣，看看这个罢...这样看来，我们的条件好多了。

8分钟的时候，开膛掏内脏并血水四流，强忍住本能的呕吐，拍摄者也发出抑制呕吐的声音。各种死因、奇形怪状的尸体，触目惊心的处理尸体手法，膨胀的内脏，外流的血水，晃动的镜头加上诡异的配乐，真的很恶心，估计除了学西医的估计没人能受得了。这片子能表达个啥主题，太tm写实了，日本人够变态。

没有什么很特别的，整个程序看上去也没什么特别的技术含量，就是取出内脏，倒掉血水，塞进填塞物，缝合，穿衣，入殓。提到了哥伦比亚的“暴力时期”，可以顺带了解一下，最后orozco死了没有别人帮他入殓，也挺可怜的。

讲哥伦比亚一个尸体防腐员大叔的日常工作：基本就是开膛破肚，翻个身倒掉血水，缝起来，口里塞过滤布，鼻孔塞棉花，再穿寿衣，然后是各种惨死的可怜人。内容还算是可以接受，只是不愿见到那么多被开膛破肚，掏去灵魂的冰冷躯壳。

人再咋个辉煌 死了也就那样··肚子切开血都不留一滴···刀子在脸里面乱割一通，脑子里面塞的废报纸···简直觉得啥子意思都没得咯