Last night, my trip was made complete when Hans Peter Söder, our professor and chaperone, decided to buy a DVD at a truck stop for us to watch during the long journey home. The movie was called "Motor Psycho" and he chose it because it was supposed to be a movie about a motorcycle band, fitting in with our class theme about traveling and experience. The movie opens with a shot of a very busty woman asleep on a towel on the side of the road. Her husband or boyfriend is down a little trail that leads to a lake, fishing. She wants to kiss him a little, but he's busy, so she goes back to sleep.
Then it cuts to a crotch shot of a guy on a motorcycle. It zooms out to reveal two other guys on motorcycles, and they drive down the road until they spot her. The leader of the gang is intrigued, and they pull over and watch her for a bit before the leader decides to lean down and kiss her.
She enjoys it until she opens her eyes and realizes it's not her boyfriend/husband, and screams for him to come save her. He runs over and fights the motorcycle gang until they beat him unconscious. She starts screaming uncontrollably and trying to check if her husband's okay, but the leader of the gang pulls her up and continues where he left off.
It then cuts to a man and a very pretty woman in a Jeep. The woman gets out of the Jeep and walks down the road, and there is another crotch shot of the motorcycle leader riding his motorcycle. They spot her and start to harass her, circling her on their motorcycles. Her husband, however, is able to stop them. She joins him in the Jeep and they drive away, while the camera zooms ominously in on the license plate. . .
We watched about a minute more (the man and his wife safe in their house-- but for how long?!) before Hans Peter shut it off and said there were technical difficulties. Definitely not the movie he had expected. I sat there, wondering how the rest of the movie would have gone (does the motorcycle gang just rape different women the entire movie?) and then decided to ask to see the movie case.
H. P. handed me the case and started talking about it. He said that he bought it because the cover looked very cool and sixties, and then showed me the inside of the case, which had a row of sixties movies along the bottom, and asked me if I knew the director. "He must have been pretty famous, because he directed this whole series of movies-- Bosomania". I took the case back to my seat and read the back and then looked at the inside.
The back of the cover was completely normal, "A band of motorcycle delinquents terrorizes the country side, but their fate changes when a doctor, whose wife they had hurt very badly, decides to take matters into his own hands" (Approximately; it was in German and I also shortened it).
But then I realized that Bosomania is the combination of the words Bosom and Mania. A closer look at the row of sixties movies at the bottom and I realized that a few of them had names like "Super Vixens" and naked ladies on the front.
When I told H. P. he laughed, got embarrassed, and then said he got it. "But the cover looked so cool!" he said, "we should use it as the cover of our yearbook."
I can only imagine what the cashier was thinking as this normal-looking man with a group of 20 year olds picked out and purchased this DVD.
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