Human Centipede 3 Full Movie 123movies

[Ophelia Gurin]

Nowhaving already told readers about the first one, today we will be breaking tradition and diving headfirst into The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), a movie I have never watched on its own but only as the centerpiece of the three-part ritual I like to call THE CENTIPEDING.

Each time I rewatch this, I am struck by the performance put in by Laurence R. Harvey as Martin. Harvey would reappear in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) and put in a completely opposite performance. The two performances, back to back, show an immense range that is sadly underappreciated by our human centipede-averse society, but even just watching THC2 (FS) intrigues me enough to always look up his other work even though I have not followed through and actually watched any of it.

Harvey inhabits Martin as a largely silent force. Martin is not seen speaking, though he suffers a frequent cough, and while muteness plus hyperfixation could easily suggest a character meant to be interpreted as on the spectrum, Harvey does not play into those stereotypes. When he fails to interact with others socially, it comes off less as awkwardness and more as a genuine disinterest in others. His victims are incredibly diverse and yet they are not targeted for their identities, only for being in the wrong place and the wrong time. In the first movie, we had Dr. Heiter seeing all humans as less than himself; potential pets and experiments to fuel his own pride. With Martin, we get far less but that is by design: Martin is not meant to be a fully realized character so much as a societal fear of what sort of person could possibly enjoy The Human Centipede. The entire movie is based around not the fear of medical transgressions or Nazi-adjacent evils but the first film itself and its potential influence on audience members.

And yet, Martin has a chance for sympathy. We know little about him, but we do know he was psychologically and sexually abused by his father, berated by his mother (who blames Martin for her husband being in prison), and is being abused (or at least creeped on) by his male therapist. Martin occupies a sad world with no joy, save his relationship with the movie and then his centipede. Is Mr. Tom Six saying that perhaps movies are meant to be fun but not a full-on replacement for human connection? That in place of proper social services and mental health resources people are left to find solace where they may? Or is he just making this as over-the-top painful as possible?

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