Does anyone have any idea about why, after the cab ride, Sara pricks her finger on a needle sticking out on the door? I mean, I know this is an Argento film, so who knows, it could mean nothing whatsoever. However, does anyone think it has any significance at all? Or mean anything? It just bugs me every time I see it, its very unnerving. Again, its an Argento movie. You've got to love it. But does anyone have any ideas?
shareIn a commentary of DEEP RED, someone (I forget who) said that Dario Argento puts things like the finger prick in movies to make sure that the viewer is never left at ease/calm.
I hope that helps!
I remember who said that, Bernardino Zapponi in the 25th Anniversary Featurette on the DVD.
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You never really know what it means, and that is kind of the point. It seems like the influence of the three mothers is simultaneously so vast and secret that we never really know if what happens has something to do with them or not. I always imagined that somebody wanted to use her blood for a spell, that the cab driver would deliver it for a reward.
In much of Witchcraft...voodoo especially.. the Sorcerer can acheive greater control over the subject by having a personal posession of theirs. Remember when the "black gloved hand" PICKED UP THE LIPSTICK AFTER THE WATER SCENE.... SAME REASON.. personal posession of an object = spiritual posession of the person.
shareBut Inferno isn't about witchcraft, it's about alchemy. I think the only point is that someone deliberately hurt her for no apparent reason, making her and the audience feel a bit uneasy. Maybe it's the cab driver, after all he drove an awful long way from Freiburg to New York, so he's gonna have to want something out of it, at least a laugh.
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The cab ride in INFERNO takes place in Rome not New York. And I recognised straight away that the actor playing the cab driver is the same one who also played the cab driver in SUSPIRIA.
shareInferno is filled with hundreds of tiny references to Suspiria, little things that seem like dim, warped reflections. The cab door is awfully reminiscent of the sharp, malevolent looking spike-like things sticking out of the airport automatic doors at the beginning of Suspiria. (In case you didn't notice, by the way, Sara gets a ride from the same cab driver we saw in Suspiria.)
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In the book ART OF DARKNESS, there is an essay on INFERNO, where the writer points out that many of the people who die in the film get pricked by a sharp object shortly before they die.
shareTake the Countess for instance..didn't she cut her foot shortly before her death? And Rose Elliot,the character played by Irene Miracle introduced to us at the opening of the film, who cut her hand on the glass door handle only to leave a glorious bloody hand print on a curtain before her demise at the hands of, what I presume is, one of the Mater's henchmen,taloned fingers and all..? robbieuk
shareNow that's a great observation! I never thought about it till you mentioned it. Hmmmmm.....
shareTrue, but Countess had Rose's blood on her foot, not hers.
shareThe Countess had Rose's blood on her foot, but she was attacked by cats and clawed before her death shortly thereafter.
shareI thought Mater Lachrymarum planted the needle.
Sara was murdered shortly after and Mater Lachrymarum was shown leaving in a car shortly after her body is found.
I took it to be some kind of blood magic used by the witches.