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Your Vice is a Locked Room & Only I Have the Key
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[Tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave]
1972 - Italy
Director
Sergio Martino
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Well, shocking no one, giallo is confirmedly not the genre for me, but all things considered I have to admit that I liked it! I mean, it is unpleasant: gore, and not particularly well-done gore (to a “modern viewer” I suppose). And then, all the out-of-nowhere, rather nasty sexual escapades (including Fenech’s character, who has no discernible agenda; exists merely to have sex with every other character). And if this is the giallo with the most character development, I can only conclude it’s a genre that simply does not put a very high premium on that virtue. And yet… I liked it: it’s a superlative “crazy bitch” film of course, and it begs to have a term paper written about it, full of characters who never moved beyond Lacan’s mirror phase…
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