Another look at Campanella's Oscare winner
either very good or very bad, lots going on here
on the very good side, we have the story of a fantasy, saturated colours, close-ups of sever subjectivity, lead makes up the story himself. Interesting use of narrative framings, inventing stories of why this happened. Film cleverly deconstructs itself.
One the negative, the thriller plot never holds up, is preposterous, it is shot in ping-pong shot-reverse (no legs in sight), pretty unimaginative, and dwells on the negative place of women.
Perhaps the inadequacy of the thriller line can be attributed as necessary to make Benjamin's fantasy just that; a stupid fantasy
On this reading the prison-house makes sense, as it is the fulfillment of what he wanted, revealed in all his horror (even if scene after that a bit of a cop-out)
Interesting film in so many ways, the inadequacies of the thriller plot part of a wider structure perhaps, though the rather unimaginative direction don't leave us too expectant of the director's next film
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