Now that organic food has become part of our lives,now that chicken must have access to open air ( when it's written on the box , it sells) , "la morte" has an ecological contemporary feel (the researcher goes into raptures over " these chicken without head ,only meat, packaging made easier").It is a spoof on the consumer society disguised as thriller : the economics problems are given more time than the "setup" ,;mechanization walks hand in hand with unemployment and it is not passed over in silence .
This fowl is a cruel kind of animal ,and it shows with the numerous clos-ups of gallinaceous heads ; the avertising executive's drawings are almost frightening .And the viewer feels ill-at-ease when he is taken along the huge henhouse. The chicken-like bourgeois ,in the wife-swapping scene ("we act like the fowl")are given a treatment close to that of Claude Chabrol ,which the presence of French actor Jean -Louis trintignant reinforces : he was part of a menage à trois in "Les Biches" (1967),in which there was a lesbian relationship too .
This fowl is a cruel kind of animal ,and it shows with the numerous clos-ups of gallinaceous heads ; the avertising executive's drawings are almost frightening .And the viewer feels ill-at-ease when he is taken along the huge henhouse. The chicken-like bourgeois ,in the wife-swapping scene ("we act like the fowl")are given a treatment close to that of Claude Chabrol ,which the presence of French actor Jean -Louis trintignant reinforces : he was part of a menage à trois in "Les Biches" (1967),in which there was a lesbian relationship too .