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Rappresaglia (1973)
Surprisingly thoughtful
24 June 2006 - 27 out of 33 users found this review helpful.
If you pick this for striking scenes of violence,you'd do better to go elsewhere. What remains in my mind after watching it are the performances - especially Richard Burton and Peter Vaughn as soldiers resigned to taking and giving orders they'd rather not take and give - and the methodical way in which the reprisals are ordered, arranged and then carried out.
Every time I hear of some brutal crime, I wonder how it ever began, how people could commit such acts.
But this film gave me an understanding of the process whereby one act/decision leads to another, which leads to another... until there's no stopping it, even if anybody wanted to.
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