After the crash, Pascal does not go into work the next day. Instead, he sits on a steel frame office chair in the back yard of his mid-terraced house and smokes his unfiltered cigarettes and alternates between sips of brandy and cups of coffee until the early afternoon.
He watches a pair of birds pecking at seeds on his neighbour's bird-table, before picking up the ash tray and moving inside. From his track-suit he retrieves a USB stick, which he slots into his laptop. When he was initially employed at the out of town gymnasium he took the opportunity afforded by two consecutive weeks of late shifts to surreptitiously install a webcam in the women's changing rooms. Most of it is a catalogue of the mundane, women standing around, getting changed, gossiping and wandering around semi-clothed. He finds none of this particularly arousing. There is a sequence where two women fight briefly (about what he has never discovered) before being removed by a couple of staff. He watches this sequence more than once.
Eventually he finds the segment he was looking for and settles back to watch. A woman enters the changing room, her face hidden under a baseball cap and begins to get undressed. Momentarily she disappears from view as she bends down, presumably to remove her pants. When she stands up, however, she is wearing a gorilla mask. She proceeds to dance around the changing room in her underwear to music Pascal cannot hear and then steps up close to the webcam and makes obscene gestures, before getting dressed once more and leaving. The Frenchman watches this short sequence repeatedly for over an hour, masturbating twice.
When he is spent for the second time, he turns off the laptop and replaces the USB stick in his track-suit before showering and making an omelette. Afterwards he steps out into the yard once more. Someone has scrawled a crude stick drawing woman on the back of the yard gate. The figure is clearly depicted wearing a gorilla mask. Pascal regards the drawing thoughtfully, whilst smoking another unfiltered cigarette as the sun dips below the rooftops of the houses opposite. In the bathroom of one house he can see a naked figure, though the glass makes it impossible to determine gender. Finally he goes inside, closing the door behind him.
(He watches a pair of birds pecking at seeds on his neighbour's bird-table, before picking up the ash tray and moving inside. From his track-suit he retrieves a USB stick, which he slots into his laptop. When he was initially employed at the out of town gymnasium he took the opportunity afforded by two consecutive weeks of late shifts to surreptitiously install a webcam in the women's changing rooms. Most of it is a catalogue of the mundane, women standing around, getting changed, gossiping and wandering around semi-clothed. He finds none of this particularly arousing. There is a sequence where two women fight briefly (about what he has never discovered) before being removed by a couple of staff. He watches this sequence more than once.
Eventually he finds the segment he was looking for and settles back to watch. A woman enters the changing room, her face hidden under a baseball cap and begins to get undressed. Momentarily she disappears from view as she bends down, presumably to remove her pants. When she stands up, however, she is wearing a gorilla mask. She proceeds to dance around the changing room in her underwear to music Pascal cannot hear and then steps up close to the webcam and makes obscene gestures, before getting dressed once more and leaving. The Frenchman watches this short sequence repeatedly for over an hour, masturbating twice.
When he is spent for the second time, he turns off the laptop and replaces the USB stick in his track-suit before showering and making an omelette. Afterwards he steps out into the yard once more. Someone has scrawled a crude stick drawing woman on the back of the yard gate. The figure is clearly depicted wearing a gorilla mask. Pascal regards the drawing thoughtfully, whilst smoking another unfiltered cigarette as the sun dips below the rooftops of the houses opposite. In the bathroom of one house he can see a naked figure, though the glass makes it impossible to determine gender. Finally he goes inside, closing the door behind him.
Smallbrainfield,
Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:10,
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I think JJ should draw this one.
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The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:16,
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hahahaThis should be a black and white silent movie.
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drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:28,
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Very goodSpends the afternoon Googling in vain for that dancing gorilla mask clip
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fuscous,
Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:39,
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