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Une Semaine de Bonte Story (1 Point)

 Thursday, The Rooster's Laughter

A woman selling the eggs of chickens is approached by a small rooster. With eyes on the woman, the small rooster communicates with a looming, large rooster man, who takes her and kills her. Laying her out on a bed, he gets her ready for her casket, which he and another rooster-man in black lower her into a hole in the ground. Present for the lowering, a naked lady watches. While the two rooster-men decide on the garments of the woman, other dazed women lament the death of the one in the casket, knowing their fate could come to the same conclusion. In the bed chambers, two roosters stand next to and over the corpse of a woman whose fate had come to such a conclusion, while in another room, a woman appears to adorn the outfit of a rooster who stands in the nude behind her. At another area, a hen-woman who is armed with a stick accompanies by two distraught women. Later that night, the women hide with a crane from a naked rooster man, but he finds them when they drop their candle and start a fire. In an attempt to escape, they dress as rooster-men and try to drag already dead women from their inevitable fate. As many women try to escape on a train, naked rooster-men grab and force the women from the safety of the train, afterwards torturing and killing them. After a battle where both rooster-men and women show off their kills, the rooster-men claim their territory with a flag raised over the city. 



Thursday, Easter Island

The Maoi heads are men that want to have claim over women. They take control over their hair, their relationships, their bodies. Yet, they can go get drunk and afterwards rape as they please. But standing together, the women fight back, bringing the Maoi head to his knees and showing him a skeleton to provide a clue as to what will happen to him. 

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