Daisies follows the day-long lark of two seventeen-year-old girls, both named Marie, who vow to be just as spoiled as the world is. On this note they set out to satisfy their insatiable appetites for experimentation and manipulation, food and pleasure; they toy with men as a means to free meals. Vera Chytilova's film is as funny, engaging and exuberant as the two Maries; it is also as defiant and confrontative, rejecting psychology and narrative for a more absolute statement. Yvette Biro writes, "Daisies' philosophical parable is stronger than in any other Czech film. Chytilova considers herself a radical moralist. She speaks about indifference, which leads to catastrophes. By refusing every psychological approach, the film directly confronts an ethical question. Chytilova called her film a grotesque philosophical document. In order to achieve it she draws on all the resources of modern film language. The use of camera and of colors-the outstanding work of Jaroslav Kucera-denies conventional rules. It is a rigorously calculated frenzy...a macabre play, and if its mise-en-scène succeeds in surprising the spectator constantly, it is not due to the irrational intrigue, but to its peculiar development from the grotesque into an existential desperateness." Studio officials banned the film, preventing its domestic release.