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The Onion A/V club’s “my year of flops” feature examines Roman Polanski’s scary-sounding 1972 comedic romp What?, and comes up with this beautiful paragraph:

Even in the Wild West world of ’70s cinema, What? is profoundly fucked-up. Polanski pops up in his free-associative bacchanal as an irritable young man known only as “Mosquito.” Why Mosquito? “They call me Mosquito because I sting with my big stinger,” Polanski helpfully says. Then he shows off the stinger in question—a harpoon. “I am not a boob man like those Americans. It’s usually ass that turns me on,” he continues. Suddenly it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to see Polanski solely as an artist, and not as a man currently in jail for having drugged and sodomized a 13-year-old. There is some creepy juju at work here.

Creepy juju indeed. I kind of want to see this movie now, and at the same time I’m kind of freaked out by that. Here’s a piratebay link, if you are interested, or if you just feel like pirating some of Mr. Polanski’s intellectual property.