No Such Thing (film)

No Such Thing previously titled Monster, Icelandic Skrmsli is a 2001 United StatesIcelandic film directed by Hal Hartley. It tells the story of Beatrice Sarah Polley, a tabloid journalist whose fianc is killed by a monster in Iceland. The film, based very loosely on the AngloSaxon epic Beowulf, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the May 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

After cajoling Beatrice into drinking herself into unconsciousness, the villagers strip her and leave her as an offering to the Monster himself Robert John Burke, a foulmouthed, alcoholic beast old enough to remember human ancestors crawling from the seas. Beatrice shows him no real fear, although the Monster tells her he has killed her friends and might kill her, too. He tells her that he wants to die, but is indestructible. In an effort to force Beatrice to try to kill him, he proves that he killed Jim and his crew. She shoots him twice and he reacts in obvious pain, but heals almost instantly. He tells her of a mad scientist, Dr. Artaud Baltasar Kormkur, who had discovered a way to kill him, but Dr. Artaud had been taken away in a straight jacket. Beatrice offers to help him find Dr. Artaud if the Monster comes with her to New York and promises not to kill anyone while he is there.In New York the Monster becomes a celebrity, with the Boss staging a media frenzy as they search for Dr. Artaud. They find that he is working for the government. While Beatrice revels in the attention, the Monster remains miserable and drunk. The Boss makes a deal with a government scientist to study the Monster and hes rushed away by army guards who mislead him into believing he is going to see Dr. Artaud. Instead, he is subjected to torturous experiments as the scientists try to discover the key to his indestructibility, one of them noting that he cant seem to tolerate new information. One of those experiments involves the Monster being ridiculed and beaten on the street to study his behavior. The Monster holds true to his promise to Beatrice and does not kill anyone. ........

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