The Last Supper

Stacy Title, USA 1996, 94 minutes

The Last Supper is about a group of five post-grad students who, in order to make the world a better place, decide to poison their dinner guests before using their corpses to fertilise their increasingly sizable tomato plants (a nod perhaps to Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice).

Each member of the group invites a guest for dinner. Each guest is chosen especially for their extreme views, which are considered bad enough to warrent death. The film tackles all the major hang-ups of modern life through the guests who range from a homophobic priest, to a man who believes that all women want to have sex whether they say yes or no, to a teenage girl who thinks that sex education is destroying the minds of the nation's youth.

It depicts beautifully how the best intentions of a group of young liberals to change the views of right-wing extemists for the better, goes horribly wrong. The students become gradually more interested in killing than in upholding the ideas and values they believe in. There is a wonderful twist at the end in which the group are taught a lesson by a man that they believed to be one of the worst offenders. The film leaves you thoughtful and contemplative as well as slightly unsure due to the interesting final scene.

The Last Supper is an excellent observation of arrogant and allknowing views brought to a logical conclusion. An easy to watch and highly entertaining comedy. It definitely makes for a good night out.

Review by Claire Duggan
Taken from EUFS Programme 1997-98