Synopsis
Opening with an image of a wedding ring rolling into a gutter, is a black comedy that makes us rethink the the phrase "till death do us a part…" until it tastes bitter. Trixi Jancik, a middle-aged woman chronically depressed and bored to death has lived her whole life like a maid. Her only source of escape was going to the racetrack without her husband knowing. But Trixi is blackmailed after borrowing money from a neighbor, Carly, at the tracks. Faced with the fear that she might be divorced and left penniless after a lifelong service, she gives her husband heart medicine different from his prescription. Trixi, now widowed, turns into a praying mantis by remarrying rich and love-starved men and then killing them off one by one. Director Paul Harather of believes that unlike TV series on cops or mystery novels, the world is filled with murderers and unsolved cases. Although Trixi continues her murders and even gets on a tram with strange meat in a butcher's bag, the world is not suspicious of this good housewife. Trixi is not trapped by the loose snares of justice but rather is caught the moment she fantasizes about romantic love forgetting the rules of a hunter. This sense of reality makes much more than a bizarre comedy you can laugh about. The best part is how Christiane Horbiger, in the role of Trixi, transforms from a shabby old lady no better than a dishcloth to a femme fatale without any magic like plastic surgery. Trixi's counterattack towards life gets lost on the way. However, the frightening irony of is that to the generation of women whose sole means to save their lives was to get married, Trixi's evil deeds may be the only revenge that do justice. (Harry Kim)