Of course, I'm referring to the murder of sexy dancer Gloria Revelle. It's a movie scene so infamous, it got a reference in Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho, which dealt with the subject mater you'd expect.
What was director Brian De Palma thinking? The rud e contrast between the husband's ugly face mask and Gloria's green eyes, the helpless pleading for her life, the earlier set up of Gloria dancing for the Peeping Tom and of course, the appearance of the murder weapon, a drill, as it points towards her soft tummy -- all of this is enough to give many a 12-year-old guy psychosexual fallout, for decades to come.
Shame on you, Mr. De Palma, for you constructed a whole feature film around a single scene so violently misogynistic that the rest of your movie will forever take a background role.
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Reply by tmdb53400018
on February 3, 2023 at 2:02 AM
That's a false dichotomy.
What do you mean by that?
Reply by tmdb53400018
on February 12, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Thanks for that!
And as for the rest of your post, that's definitely your opinion--"The film in question is one of De Palma's lesser works" would probably be a more popular opinion, with all that sludge about Holly Body and the Vertigo rip considered.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on February 13, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Great
Reply by wonder2wonder
on February 14, 2023 at 10:21 PM
When I saw this movie, it reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's movies "Rear Window (1954)" and "Vertigo (1958)", so I already knew what the plot would be like.
The violent death was shocking, and when I saw the murder weapon I thought: 'Has the killer from the slasher movie "The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)" returned?'
Reply by tmdb53400018
on February 15, 2023 at 9:59 AM
Right -- I wasn't quite sure whether to classify the plot line as an "homage" or a "rip." Haha.