An over long meditation on the positives and negatives of living a life of selfless virtue and purity versus a materialistic life of corruption and crime played out by two sisters of opposite temperament. Klaus Kinski is kind of wasted since we never even get to hear his lovely German voice. Jack Palance does some bizarre line readings reminiscent of William Shatner on some type of strong medication. I think the final message is supposed to support the idea of being forthright and honest but if not for the greedy selfishness displayed by the more evil sister I don't see how innocence would be rewarded in any way. It is also possible that I misinterpreted the message. Overall an O. K. Jess Franco film but I think that a shorter version might have conveyed the message in a better fashion.
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Well, the message of the original pretty much is "You're a fool if you choose a path of virtue; all it gets you is screwed over by those who made more intelligent, i.e. cold-hearted, choices." Still, I watched the movie version and if it was trying to convey any message at all, it didn't come through very well.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm not sure that Franco and De Sade were going for exactly the same message here.
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