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User Reviews for: Repulsion

AlecTrias
7/10  one year ago
_The_ _film_ _takes_ _place_ _at_ _a_ _time_ _when_ _smoking_ _cigarettes_ _was_ _apparently_ _more_ _important_ _than_ _paying_ _attention_ _to_ _the_ _traffic_ _lights_.

[spoiler]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.[/spoiler]

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 [spoiler]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,[/spoiler] is the icing on the cake.

What's going on? [spoiler]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.[/spoiler]

>I think I'll get some cognac.
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