This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
用男权打败男权，什么以柔克刚，什么逆练女权？
民主党把持的好莱坞也开始刀刃向内，开足马力狂嘲女总统和口齿不清的老人家。
注定需要被压抑的情感，哪怕只被一人见证，哪怕被欺骗，都算活过。/ Why am I seeing Rafa Nadal in BC…////
用男权打败男权，什么以柔克刚，什么逆练女权？
总体我是喜欢这种压着的氛围和表达的。不过，撇开手法，从电影本身出发，这种压抑和文艺的展现会使动机不足，也会使爱恨情仇在戏剧张力不明显的前提下变得略显浅薄。当然，这是因为我没看过小说。
近期看过观影门槛较高的作品，特别是前半段。影片第一句话很重要，叙述者是年轻男配。
我倒是很喜欢前半部分的漫无目的，菲尔的受困于阳刚气质，克斯汀的脆弱，还有导演营造的孤寂质感，他们身处在的环境，以及这个环境下的他们是最吸引人的；但就像最后的诡计一样，矛盾和意外都有些刻意，不过一旦回味起这个随机性质的死亡，倒是非常让人兴奋。
一度以为是the ballad of John and Yoko and Paul and Brian，没想到这么颠覆，摄影美得像数字版的天堂之日
生活本身的荒诞已远远大过艺术加工时，电影便不再具备魔力。
▫️竟然有很多人觉得这部电影“讽刺”的不够高级，What？！我觉得这已经不叫讽刺了，这根本就是毫不掩饰的现实世界！！每天的阴间新闻难道不比拍出来的要更傻逼更让人震惊100倍吗！！不是电影不高级，是这个FuckingWorld本来就低级！！把“彗星撞地球”换做任何一个全球事件，简直就可以当作是记录片看，世界，妙不可言。
不得不承认最后一段拍得太牛逼了，马厩内抽烟的手指上全是戏，单说人与人之间情感的微妙含蓄高级感，这一段真是教科书中的教科书。
SH封控timing看它，绝了，你搞不清你在戏里，还是你在看戏。
BC无论外型还是表演风格都不太适合演这个角色，画面相对于故事也显得有些过于干净明亮。
太长了扣分，压缩到一个半小时会很牛逼的（以及这是我本人最害怕的题材，堪称个人向恐怖片，因为我有宇宙恐惧症（如果有这个病的话
"Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog."
画面美且残忍，看着摄影机划过群山的画面，简直像动物的皮毛一样，发光柔韧。感觉下一秒就要因为呼吸而起伏起来，有点恐怖的美感。剧情倒是简单，美丽的男孩子从开始到结尾一直在做残忍的事情。可怜了卷福了
问题在于菲尔这个角色明显是没有死的必要的，反而儿子这个角色透着一股志得意满的邪恶
这是一部前两个小时以为是（断背）文艺片在看的，最后一秒发现原来是缜密谋杀片的电影。
好闷一片子，坚持看完全靠撑着眼。
这个片真的不能看剧透，不然少了很多回味的乐趣。
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