Of course, I'm referring to the murder of sexy dancer Gloria Revelle. It's a movie scene so infamous, it got a reference in Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho, which dealt with the subject mater you'd expect.
What was director Brian De Palma thinking? The rud e contrast between the husband's ugly face mask and Gloria's green eyes, the helpless pleading for her life, the earlier set up of Gloria dancing for the Peeping Tom and of course, the appearance of the murder weapon, a drill, as it points towards her soft tummy -- all of this is enough to give many a 12-year-old guy psychosexual fallout, for decades to come.
Shame on you, Mr. De Palma, for you constructed a whole feature film around a single scene so violently misogynistic that the rest of your movie will forever take a background role.
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Svar av tmdb53400018
den 3 Februar 2023 kl. 2:02 AM
That's a false dichotomy.
What do you mean by that?
Svar av tmdb53400018
den 12 Februar 2023 kl. 11:23 AM
Thanks for that!
And as for the rest of your post, that's definitely your opinion--"The film in question is one of De Palma's lesser works" would probably be a more popular opinion, with all that sludge about Holly Body and the Vertigo rip considered.
Svar av tmdb53400018
den 13 Februar 2023 kl. 4:51 PM
Great
Svar av wonder2wonder
den 14 Februar 2023 kl. 10:21 PM
When I saw this movie, it reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's movies "Rear Window (1954)" and "Vertigo (1958)", so I already knew what the plot would be like.
The violent death was shocking, and when I saw the murder weapon I thought: 'Has the killer from the slasher movie "The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)" returned?'
Svar av tmdb53400018
den 15 Februar 2023 kl. 9:59 AM
Right -- I wasn't quite sure whether to classify the plot line as an "homage" or a "rip." Haha.