Review of Don't Move (2004) by Ilona D — 19 Apr 2008
Disturbing, borderline exploitative, and yet so multi-faceted, you can't tear yourself away. Is any man a potential rapist? What makes a man (an utterly civilized, bourgeois, well-heeled surgeon, with the perfect wife and quite possibly the perfect life) rape? A hot summer day and car trouble on the autostrada is all it takes.
A scruffy, but helpful girl who lives in a shabby dump on the outskirts and lets you use her phone. That's all. The initial rape turns into a repeat performance, which somehow turns into - guess what? - a torrid affair.
Nausea was pretty much all I felt throughout the first half of watching Sergio Castellito portray the most self-serving, self-pitying, unscrupulous, ruthless, brutal, yet on the outside, polished egomaniac imaginable.
He embodies all that is vile about the male ego and consequent behaviour. His wife suffers from it, and his mistress, that poor, destitute, abused creature, ends up paying the full price, screwed as she was from the beginning of her short, joyless, pitiable life.
All in all, despicable, but I enjoyed the many different layers.... I confess.
This review of Don't Move (2004) was written by Ilona D on 19 Apr 2008.
Don't Move has generally received positive reviews.
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