Despite having recently watched "Highway Racer", "The Savage Three" and other poliziottesci, I wasn't really prepared for the bleakness and brutality of this one.
There is the familiar anti-capitalist background and boredom of the young rich, and a reasonable plot, but the way that this one lingers on the (often sexual) violence was a bit of a surprise to me, and it comes across as an extreme example depicting a deeply corrupt and misogynistic society - even the "good guys" treat the women very badly. Just because they're not raping and murdering them (as the bad guys do) it doesn't make for easy viewing. I wonder what contemporary Italians think of this stuff?
Not for the faint-hearted.
There is the familiar anti-capitalist background and boredom of the young rich, and a reasonable plot, but the way that this one lingers on the (often sexual) violence was a bit of a surprise to me, and it comes across as an extreme example depicting a deeply corrupt and misogynistic society - even the "good guys" treat the women very badly. Just because they're not raping and murdering them (as the bad guys do) it doesn't make for easy viewing. I wonder what contemporary Italians think of this stuff?
Not for the faint-hearted.