We all have our favourite Giallo. Someone, maybe like “do Not torment duckling” Lucio Fulci, the other appreciates “My dear killer” Tonino Valerii Giallo or Mario Basis. Yes, and the Dario Argento of at least a dozen, almost every taste. It seems, and the Director can’t resist unhealthy fascination maniacs, as rightly said the main character “Blood-red”.
This Giallo is perhaps the perfect name, especially a nice-sounding Italian, even translation is not desirable. Yes and no, because nobody translates “Suspiria” and even how to translate the American “the omen” all forgotten. Title “Profondo rosso” as it emphasizes one of the hallmarks of the Giallo, when violence is not only terrible but also beautiful. Not only scare wanted the authors of the Giallo, but also hit the eye after each kill decorated so beautifully, just like a Guignol theater. And Argento himself, incidentally, also appreciates this unusual Giallo, again called the same and your store. “Profondo rosso” is 124 minutes, which is unusual for a lot of horror, and the entire movie is only 4 murders. At the same time, the plot of this film is so interesting that hardly anyone will be able to sit at the screen.
Argento took as a basis the classic Michelangelo Antonioni movie “blow-up” and lovingly moved the structure to a different genre. There’s even starred the same actor David Hemings (and plays fine, but Argento is, however, no one is bad and not played) in the role of jazz pianist Mark accidentally became a witness to a murder. Consequently, the structure of the “Blow up” in his debut in “Profondo rosso” Argento perfected all the details, plotting is extremely intricate and at the same time absolutely logical intrigue. The picture with the persons which will torment the hero – this is the disappearing corpse of the great author. But if to be careful of the hero and to look not only at the center of the frame, but on the periphery, it is possible in the beginning to see among persons true face, most scary, insane and convincing maniac in movie history. Just look at his eyes from beneath the hat pulled low in the final – Yes, exactly like that (we, thank God, they were not met, but believe) freaks and are not philosophers, like Hannibal Lecter, or supposedly a very clever killer from “Saw” John Kramer. This maniac does not speak but acts, and the cleaver not just an instrument of intimidation, namely the knife, which definitely will kill the victim.
The second most important character is an emancipated journalist Gianna, Brezzi in a great performance of a very young Daria Nikolodi, later converging with the Director. Her character prefers not Directors, and musicians, just noticing the Brand, a typical intellectual, not only as a story but as a man. Their shy, awkward romance, it seems, is able to touch and severe lover of westerns, because there are more different people than they are. And the characters, contrary to all forecasts, are bound to each other, learn to care, care. The investigation of crimes of a maniac brings them closer and makes vulnerable, because a dangerous animal is hiding somewhere close by and always ahead of the game, cleverly covering up all traces.
In the work of Argento, despite the bloody plot, a lot of humor coming from the characters and not explicit comicvine. The inspector who steadfastly says that mark is unemployed, the mother of a friend who thinks its engineer (“You play the piano? / I’m actually a pianist. Oh, how wonderful that the engineer plays the piano!”), Yes, even the occasional man in a diner, which is constantly included steam, preventing the hero to talk on the phone.
And we should stay on the claret of Kalamaja. The modern viewer does not know the great talent of this actress, who played in the neorealist films, but later departed from the movies. Here she got the role of the former theatre prima, who broke with the theatre under the pressure of her husband. Must have pictures hanging on the walls of her house, real photo Clara of Kalamaja, nostalgically reminiscing, and her character, her youth. Argento really did gave the actress a role, are imbued with respect for her previous achievements. The role from Argento, is an atypical role, was almost the last in the life of Clara Kalamaja, giving us one of the most memorable characters in the history of Giallo.
A lot has been said about the predominance of red in the frame, and about the excellent shooting endoscopic cameras, and about the old mansion that holds dark secrets as zombies rise from their graves in order to steal Snoopy. Argento masterfully builds the frame, holds the suspense better than the carpenter and, maybe Hitchcock. Shadow of the bloody villain constantly looming somewhere in the distance, his quiet confident steps closer to the next sacrifice, so that the stroke of the hatchet to take her life. The space of film is constantly expanding, absorbing new people and new places, so I effectively get to the final, first false, then true, what is happening exactly where mark first saw the picture with faces.
I think everyone in the audience will remember one person from this saturated advantages, unusually living, scary and exciting horror-detective, but I never forget a face unmasked the villain, as if materialized from scary stories about Villa composed by author based on urban legends. And then faded for me Hannibal Lecter, after all, his place was taken by another, more convincing madman to kill for which all the same what to live.
Rating: 9
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