REPULSION | We Are Desperate for Meaning | The Critic Richard Thrill's film review
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The Critic Richard Thrill on seeing Repulsion for the second time. Repulsion, 1965, is the 2nd movie by Roman Polanski and stars Catherine Deneuve. This slow horror film is Polanski at his most insidious. Carol is a Belgian ex-pat manicurist living in London with her sister. Unlike her sister, though, Carol is terrified of sex, and after her sister leaves on holiday with her lover, Carol is left alone in the flat to face her fears in a claustrophobic downward spiral of madness and violence. Excellent direction, great performance, and wonderful cinematography. Highly recommended.
As far as we can tell, The Critic Richard Thrill would have viewed Roman Polanski's REPULSION at Governor's State University in the autumn of 1983. However, Repulsion appears to be the first truly adult film that Thrill ever saw, sneaking into the Esquire theater in October 1965 with a friend. "We sat down expecting to see some naughty parts, but got Repulsion instead." Journal entry from October 1983.
Music based off the drum pattern by Chico Hamilton
Written, edited, narrated, and scored by Brian Hischier
Twitter: @BRHischier
If _Repulsion_ is still bruising your brain and making your skin crawl (and let's be honest, we did this to ourselves), you can find my other analysis videos on Polanski's masterpiece here: bit.ly/3gmNbLR
i love your commentary! it feels like im rewatching with a friend, astute observations with lighthearted and witty quips, which is especially refreshing after watching something as bleak as repulsion for 2 hrs. i look forward to seeing more from you!
Thanks so much, Olivia. I'm so glad it added a little something extra to your viewing experience! What a film…
That "directed by Roman Polanski" going right through her eye reminds me of the eye being cut by a razor in "Un chien Andalou" by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Absolutely!
Hitchcock was a fan of Bunuel, too.
Great review, and I liked the way you linked the credits to Vertigo. May I add that I've always thought that the way Polanski's credit cuts across Deneuve's eye was an allusion to Un Chien Andalou.
That's an excellent connection with Un Chien Andalou. Thanks for watching the video!
This is a long shot, but hopefully, I have the correct film.
Sometime around 1975-76, I saw a black-and-white movie during the daytime on either network or public television in Oceanside, California. (We were still a few years away from having cable.)
All I remember was a woman looking around in an upstairs bedroom. Then she heard footsteps coming up the stairs, and she backed into a corner and sat down on the floor. Her face morphed into a look of sheer terror, and you could hear her heart pounding and heavy breathing. I think she had her hand covering her mouth to keep from screaming, and her face went stark white.
Then, out of nowhere, the heartbeat and her panicked breathing stopped and she was standing at the window looking out on a nice summer day. She may have experienced a flashback memory. This could have also been part of a TV episode instead of a movie. All I remember is the segment I described. It was on regular network TV or public television, and was in black-and-white.
Is that a scene from this movie?
Halfway thru I honestly stopped understanding what this guy was saying i thought he was doing a bit with trying to needlessly say the most complicated sentences ever but yea he wasnt
your review, because of its nuance, had me saying "...huh" aloud
Thanks so much, I hope they it was a fun “huh” at least!
@@reviewlets5171 it was! thank you for putting the work in
Compared to your review, the movie is crystal clear to me, lol.
I totally get that and appreciate your comment :) Thanks for watching!
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You want a meaning? try this one; her "repulsion" towards men put a spell on them, she kept enhancing the repulsion with her nightly rape fantasy from a dirty man, ughh the nerve of that guy lol, in her mind she couldn't even walk down the hall in her own home without some dirty, grubby men reaching out from the walls to molest her, even though she didn't like to be dressed most of the time, but anyways it's the men's fault lol so it's the old saying, people want what they can't have, and the wall she built in her mind kept them out, so there's the issue.
Some of the scenes were eerie because of later real life events, like when Carol was slicing the Landlord with the razor, while he was on the couch, then blood was on the floor and couch just like at Cielo Dr. and for the most part, Carol who is blonde was wearing a nightgown reminiscent of the last thing Sharon Tate was wearing, and when she was found unconscious laying on the floor, I was like OMG! this is too creepy.
One of the final scenes seemed to be the catalyst for Rosemary's Baby final scene, when Michael looks in the tub in total anguish but the audience doesn't get to see it with him, also all the old neighbors coming around was reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby.....now it would've been perfect if Carol was the mother instead of Rosemary lol that would make sense she's the demon seeds mother, seeing as how she is already ummm let's say questionable?
Don't you find it ironic that it was directed by Polanski 😅🤦♀️ knowing it depicts so many rape and harassment scenes...
Amazing, keep working!
You’re too kind!
He may say so in his verbose 🥵review of the film, I don’t know, but it is obvious that Carol in the film has a psychosis. We find out that it was Bernard Hermann who made the music for "Vertigo", but the music in "Repulsion" is only mentioned as "drums" ?! It is now drummer Chico Hamilton's group that plays. Not just anyone banging on a drum.
Too much blah blah and failed attempts to impress with his 'clever' use of English. Pass. 2 star review. TLTB
I love the Noir-style inner dialogue lol
Wonderful, thanks!
If there's something I hate of this film is how Polanski depicts men: mean, unbearable, disgusting, selfish...all of them, no man deserves pity, and I can't accept that...
(but well, the movie is told from the point of view of Carol, so...).
Apart from that the film is so strong visually and experimental, with the real world being distorted and fallen apart as it happens in the mind of the Catherine Deneuve's character.
With references to Godard, Bergman, Resnais, Hitchcock and Robbe-Grillet, maybe this was the harshest, darkest and most disturbing story about the torment of child abuse.
I think it's plausible in the world of the story to have most of the male characters come across as as you describe them, since it consistently happens to nearly all the women side characters as well, each of whom falls into some stereotypical, simplistic view of women (e.g. the slut, the gossip, the nag, the sympathetic friend). These labels have a use for Carol and they become her primary mode of defense in the world. She simplifies people into objects (and threats) that she can respond to, and this gives us a horrifying view of her breakdown through her own eyes.
@@reviewlets5171 I understand your point of view, of course.
But the day after watch the film I came back to one particular scene.
Well, the film is shown and told absolutely from Carol's point of view...except the pub sequences. She is not in there, so the reality is not have being seen from her eyes.
Why Polanski couldn't create just one single scene depicting a honest, nice male behavior? The character of Colin should have a better treat, I think so.
I don't understand that two or three scenes; it breaks the general atmosphere tone
While you may be right in the majority of cases, it seems to be a real push to describe Colin as mean, unbearable, disgusting and selfish. You might disagree, but I don't see him in that light at all. He seems to care for her but is confused by her inert quality.
@@tonybennett4159 But finally doesn't he seems to be depicted as an obsessive stalker who acts violently with Carol?
I prefer the character would be nicer, more gentle, less rough...but Polanski didn't want. Well...anyway I really didn't want the character dies
@@sleuthentertainment5872 He's obviously not a stalker, look up the definition. He seems like a smitten young man no better or worse than many other young men in that situation. He is concerned for Carol, that is shown in several scenes. The scene in the car when he caresses her cheek is a case in point.
Don't forget of course that neither the sister, nor the head of the salon are shown in a particularly sympathetic light, even her co-worker is shown to be slightly neurotic and therein lies Carols problem : she has a psychosis where she doesn't feel she can turn to anyone for a solution.