Occhiali Neri
A Dario Argento film, but not stylised and giallo like Suspiria, more raw and undercooked.
Our protagonist is just a regular escort, visiting dudes for cold hard cash. After a hideous dude with a disgusting smell gets snubbed by her, he goes rogue and starts killing prostitutes. Our hero gets away from him creepy white van, but no before she crashes her car into a Chinese family.
She recovers, but loses all sight, and the Chinese kid survives as an orphan. We won’t know that until the end, but she does and semi-adopts him for a while.
Most of the time they are together, they are escaping from the killer, either around Rome, or in some woods. There’s some silly scenes with the snakes, every single person that tries to help her gets brutally murdered.
But she prevails, after some contrivances leading to our hero being rescued by her guide dog. The kid leaves to Hong Kong for extended family, and our hero remains alone. Roll credits.
When I saw he cast his own daughter I was truly afraid there would be creepy ass imagery, but no, she only helps our protagonist and gets murderer by the rogue killer.
This is an elderly film, everyone seems an elderly person trying to recapture lost glories.
Ilenia Pastorelli has a bit more agency here, compared to They Call Me Jeeg, but there’s not much for her to do, and most of the times you can’t even see their faces! It’s the opposite problem of a Transformers film, you can replace several stretches of this with a black screen and that electronic music.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.