Mother of God
I know it is never good to write about a film just after watching it, but for this, this...this! I'll make an exception. Not since Salo has a film given me the feeling of kidney stones slowly forming inside my stomach.
This Night Porter clone is an art film disguised as exploitation. Know this going in, if you must. This... is not... fun! It is not trash. It is a well made, darkly imaginative piece of softcore pretencion that is a real challenge to get through in one sitting. Wall to wall human misery, depravity and sexual abuse picture-booked together by a bluntly executed sadean love dynamic that has no place in-between such depressing scenes. The film's hap hazard approach to narrative content and arrangement makes me question the intent and morals of the creative minds behind the camera. I mean, what the hell happened!? Was it a rough shoot? Producers interfering? Too many re-writes? Or just a gun-ho faux visionary looking to shock the masses and make a name for himself?
Whatever it was, the result is clumsy, decadent and fails at providing any sort of potency other than simple truths like there is the potential for evil within us all. Ideas so matter of fact do not deserve to be expressed in scenes so oppressively effective. The result is nothing but shock value, no matter how technically competent they are, which considering this film's themed brethren and the Italian's idea of a low budget are quite well accomplished.
Again, that's all there is to say. It's well made. Other than that, it's emotionally and morally bankrupt and doesn't deserve nothing more than the accolade of being the most well made of the nazisploitation films.
If you want like enjoyably bad films, see SS Girls, if you like laughably bad films, see Beast in Heat, if you like nothing, nothing in life, see Gestapo's Last Orgy. One of the most depressing films i've ever seen.
Your life can do without this.
I know it is never good to write about a film just after watching it, but for this, this...this! I'll make an exception. Not since Salo has a film given me the feeling of kidney stones slowly forming inside my stomach.
This Night Porter clone is an art film disguised as exploitation. Know this going in, if you must. This... is not... fun! It is not trash. It is a well made, darkly imaginative piece of softcore pretencion that is a real challenge to get through in one sitting. Wall to wall human misery, depravity and sexual abuse picture-booked together by a bluntly executed sadean love dynamic that has no place in-between such depressing scenes. The film's hap hazard approach to narrative content and arrangement makes me question the intent and morals of the creative minds behind the camera. I mean, what the hell happened!? Was it a rough shoot? Producers interfering? Too many re-writes? Or just a gun-ho faux visionary looking to shock the masses and make a name for himself?
Whatever it was, the result is clumsy, decadent and fails at providing any sort of potency other than simple truths like there is the potential for evil within us all. Ideas so matter of fact do not deserve to be expressed in scenes so oppressively effective. The result is nothing but shock value, no matter how technically competent they are, which considering this film's themed brethren and the Italian's idea of a low budget are quite well accomplished.
Again, that's all there is to say. It's well made. Other than that, it's emotionally and morally bankrupt and doesn't deserve nothing more than the accolade of being the most well made of the nazisploitation films.
If you want like enjoyably bad films, see SS Girls, if you like laughably bad films, see Beast in Heat, if you like nothing, nothing in life, see Gestapo's Last Orgy. One of the most depressing films i've ever seen.
Your life can do without this.