Many people mistakenly believe that The Human Centipede was just some erotic horror film. Nothing could be further from the truth. The film was in fact, an enlightened postmodern social commentary on the folly of capitalism. The head of the centipede was the upper class and the ones below them the lower classes. It depicts the distribution of wealth among the classes using the metaphor of food and why capitalism fails society. Most people do not understand this because they are shallow, classless, superficial phonies that do not appreciate the arts and refined thinking.