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A piano teacher suppressed of her sexual desires is desperate to scratch these painful itches she has been experiencing for years. It's a sinful itch, a shameful one, But the more it's repressed the worst it gets. A story as old as time, but Hanake makes sure to present it in such a visceral and profound way. It's a mystery of the human condition rather than one of crime. Decisions that can only make sense to the person making them rather than one observing, but even then they don't really know what they are doing. It's chilling what even a mannered, clean, and withdrawn person like Erika could be driven to do.

The direction is clean, cold, calculated, and complementing to the themes at hand. In spite of a couple nitpicky things the vast majority of the decisions made by Michael Haneke are ones of pure genius. There's no dramatic music, no crazy cuts, or flashy camera tricks just the subjects, and their misery. Even in the climax of this movie doesn't do anything. Its still, feels quiet, its subtlety traumatizing in a way that is frustratingly intimate, and real.

There are scenes, images, and performances that will stick with me forever. This is one of my personal favorite dramas ever conceived in any medium of story telling. The script is one of the best ever made, and never has any story made me this emotionally distraught.

10/10.

One of the best character study's I've seen. Beautifully put together, a tight; concise, and subtle film with so much food for thought. This movie walks the morally grey line in such fashion and style, and has scenes that are brilliant in its commentary and ideas. So many layers are woven in creating such a perfect canvass for the disheartening colors. The performances feel real and grounded, the best performance of cate Blanchetts career, an already acclaimed actor.

Once it hits the fan the movie starts getting manic and increasingly surreal. The immense pressure feels real and heavy and starts peeling at the seams. Tension is quiet but palpable. Its terrifying and intense combined with the real and grounded feel to the movie and you have one of the most satisfactory 3rd acts of all time. The ending is one of the most perfect resolutions ive ever seen in a movie.

The movie goes on for another few minutes after the climax as it goes you wonder when the credits are going to role and why this act is going on for so long. Moment after moment, scene after scene you don't know where this is going until... that final shot. One of the most perfect reveals in cinema, a historical moment, a shot that is covered in intentions, ideas and greys.

10/10.

To Preface: Roman Polanski, a disturbed, sickening human being who is essentially the poster child for Hollywood's corrupted blindness of children's welfare. Once began as an empowering and invigorating story of holocaust survivor, to an influential powerful artist, then became "The one director who shall not be named". I need this out of the way due the Immense aroma surrounding his works. So just to Preface, The artwork is not the artist.

The Formal Review: An ungodly, superficial, project on the raging phenomenon of Satan In the Christian dominated, cold war era, America. It Capitalizes on the fear of occult's and, in turn Refuses the "Thou shalt love thy neighbor" argument. If anything being too open to the neighbor might just let the infamous fallen angel in. The age of this movie might've been a problem, as we have grown, and no longer have a reigning suspicion of our neighbors being occultist. But the the idea isn't completely gone, if anything the paranoia has become Deeper, subtler within our subconscious. I think that's why this movie stuck with me. As Rosemary submits herself into this middle class, predictable housewife, position, the consequences start ripping the seams. Her body, soul, and mind have all been compromised by everyone around her. Her body to her husband, her soul to her neighbors, and her mind... well that's to be determined. She is used, abused, and manipulated. Every aspect of how she talks all the way to how she cuts her hair is controlled to appease the sick. The frantic pacing helps this increasingly stressful tone. Simple gestures are quick, and sharp tapping into your already paranoid subconscious... Something is wrong, but you don't know what it is. The movie tackles the one thing considered sacred in our culture, children. It abuses you with ideas of a corrupted child, and unsettles you with a seemingly familiar scenario, family. Its slow and painful. Angers you in a hopeless vegetative state. You are to sit there and watch her lose the only thing anyone wants in this world control. Horror movies that force you to think are all indebted to this landmark film...

10/10.