directed by: elio petri
genres: drama, satire
lists: foreign film oscar winners
traces: z, american psycho, salo
fascinating film that is a precursor to 'american psycho' in satirical tone and subject matter. opens on a man murdering a young woman, then gradually reveals that the man is the chief inspector of the police - and he has committed this crime as a test of his government's willingness to accuse their own, despite having risen to obscenely high levels of power. what he discovers by playing this game is far more disturbing than the actual murder committed. like 'american psycho,' the film is ultimately about the abuse of absolute power. what begins as a cat and mouse game twists into panicked situations where the inspector plants more and more evidence to incriminate himself, eventually realizing that not even a confession will compel the 'authorities' to take action against him. cut from the same cloth as 'Z' (1969).
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