{"id":24572,"date":"2019-04-09T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24572"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:25:40","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-449","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/09\/belated-movie-reviews-449\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three eyes? Bad acne? Halitosis?<\/em>
Oh, she’s the one with the halitosis!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Blood And Black Lace<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1964) reminded me that different nations have different acting styles. I’ve commented a few times about the Japanese style, and this movie reminds me that the Italians have – or had – their own style as well.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I’m biased, or impatient, or something, but I don’t like their style, either. I shan’t go much into it, except the emotions seem exaggerated, as if we must be bottlefed the reactions of the characters.<\/p>\n

But beyond that, this is a very early slasher film, or giallo<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>in which there are many female victims of some mad killer. In this one, the victims work at a fashion salon, putting on shows, until one is beaten to death. We’re not sure why, but her secret diary is found, and that leads to another death. And then another. A few more. The police, who thought they had the killer wrapped up, are forced to admit they’ve been fooled.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the mysterious killer is revealed, but now the killer is in some serious straits, as the killer’s lover is not entirely happy. However, a fall from a height would seem to take care of the situation, and now the lover makes plans to enjoy the wealth of the killer.<\/p>\n

It’s not quite noir<\/em>, as most of the victims are more or less innocent of any serious crimes; they merely have unhappy luck. Indeed, it’s hard for me to see a real theme in this, and so my interest is mostly kept in discovering who will be the crazed murderer – and whether or not any of the victims, who try to be combative, will actually inflict real damage on their attacker. I hate it when the bad guy is invulnerable. (I also liked Daredevil<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2003) because the hero was quite a mess just from his common-criminal suppression activities.)<\/p>\n

Do they succeed? I’ll leave you in suspense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blood And Black Lace (1964) reminded me that different nations have different acting styles. I’ve commented a few times about the Japanese style, and this movie reminds me that the Italians have – or had – their own style as well. Perhaps I’m biased, or impatient, or something, but I \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24580,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions\/24580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}