Sexo, Sua Única Arma

Here's a new candidate for the dumbest review I have ever written on this site: it's for a Portuguese-language movie that I watched unsubtitled, and therefore was unable to understand a single word of dialogue.

Just ignore this review, if anybody ever reads it. This is just going to be about my assumptions of what the movie was even about.

I got that it was about a woman pretending to be blind to insinuate herself into the life of a particular family. She also seduced, or let herself be seduced, by the family's male side, perhaps in addition to some other guys.

It's actually a pretty good scene where this first happens. She strips and masturbates and pretends not to notice that a guy has entered her room and is watching her go. She feigns surprise when he touches her, and then they get it on. It's not unerotic.

There's also two curly haired sons, one of whom pulls out his surprisingly flaccid, diminutive penis while reading a porno, for some reason. Perhaps to underline his sexual inexperience, which the pretend-blind lady is soon going to relieve him of?

IMDB says that the protagonist is actually on a revenge mission, which is why she pulls out the pretend-blindness schtick. Apparently the patriarch of this family bankrupted her own, when her dad was his business partner? I never got that from what I saw, because it must have been explained in dialogue, and I can't speak Portuguese.

I didn't get the ending at all, either. The young pretend-blind lady gets a middle-aged guy who looks like Donald Sutherland to strip and stand nude in front of the mirror while she yells at him, his head hung with shame. Was that all her revenge scheme boiled down to? Body-shaming a middle-aged guy?

She does seem to leave the family worse off than when she found it. One of the curly haired brothers - not the small penis one - ends the movie in a state of anguish.

I still think this movie was probably pretty good. It's not unerotic, despite the protagonist not really being that great to look at. Is the movie supposed to be like Pasolini's "Theorem", about a mysterious guest seducing everybody in a bourgeois family? The pretend-to-be-blind angle was also used in another Pasolini flick, "Decameron", so perhaps the filmmakers of this movie were Pasolini fans.

The title is shamelessly exploitation-like and indeed there is some explicit erotic content. However, the movie is surprisingly good and well done (including the sex and masturbation scenes). Unfortunately those who read the film abstract will be surprised by an inconvenient spoiler which destroys most of the script surprise. What is informed there would be known by spectators only in the final part. By the way, actors do a great job, and so beautiful Selma Egrei is very convincing as the blind girl. The story begins with a good development of the different characters and the drama advances by unveiling clothes, motivations and the past in a very thrilling way. Sexploitation meets Once upon a time in West and Count of Monte Cristo in a very unexpectedly good film.