Repulsion ("Repulsa ao sexo", na tradução brasileira) é um daqueles filmes atemporais, sem comparativos, sem paralelos. Único. Um filme que com certeza rompeu muitas barreiras quando foi lançado e até hoje influencia muita gente, de Aronofsky a Cronenberg. A estética, a linguagem, o tema, tudo muito bem pensado e amarrado com uma trilha sonora matadora (sem brincadeiras com o filme). Um dos melhores filmes de Polansky, se não o melhor.
what if the thing you feared most was consumed by the idea of possessing you?
The film takes place at a time when smoking cigarettes was apparently more important than paying attention to the traffic lights.
Carole, the main character, seems to be under the spell of something. Even in her childhood, she is not with herself, as you can see in the photo of her family. She constantly looks quite apathetically somewhere, as if she were not there, or as if she saw something that others do not see.
She may be obsessed with something that she has been able to suppress halfway successfully all these years, but then is unleashed by a trigger and can no longer be held back.
Actually a really nice movie. Only the end was a little too abrupt for me from today's point of view. The film builds up for a long time and it does that very well. Soft camera movements and a beautiful image composition make you very close to the main protagonist. It almost feels like you're experiencing the story together with Carole.
Except that the film is black and white, I would not have thought that it was from 1965.
Precisely because the film is black and white, lights and shadows appear much more clearly in their expression.
In my opinion, the film is even better in black and white than in color.
The German film title is: Disgust – Ekel.
So I wondered all the time where the film title finds its place here. Now I know it's not the disturbing moments that are disgusting, but rather the men in this film. They take themselves more important than anything else, simply touch women and invade their privacy.
The scene where he, who fell in love with Carole, visits her at home and then enters the door violently because he supposedly saw a shadow through the peephole, is the icing on the cake.
What's going on? Then he stands in the middle of the room and says: "Oh, sorry." No wonder Carole feels harassed. Or the landlord who browses through the whole apartment, looks at everything, condemns the tenants and then also harasses Carole.
I think I'll get some cognac.
Shout by manicureVIP 4BlockedParent2021-05-01T13:54:12Z
More than a woman losing her mind, a woman losing the ability to control the inner demons she kept suppressing her whole life. The slow pacing can be a little demanding at times, but it mirrors Carol's apathy and helplessness perfectly. Most of this film's charm comes from Carol's decadent beauty (even though her hair looks too good for someone who hasn't taken a bath for days) and the various ways her apartment morphs as she descends into paranoia. Jumpscare alert! The editing is a little stiff, but usual for the time.