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Some stuff just made no sense...


When locked in the "display room" with just the sculptor, the model insisted on covering herself up despite the fact no one could see her?????

Also,when they were "together" either herself or the sculptor would go to great lengths to make sure she was not exposed?????

Side note: don't get me wrong, I am 33 years old and I know what breasts look like but I found it difficult to watch a movie of that subject matter and have the gratuaity stop at absurdity. All or nothing as far as I'm concerned!

Also, the scuptor's knowledge of the warehouse lay out and his ability to navigate it with grace seemed to vary greatly throughout the film. I feel this inconsistncy (in part) was simply the answer to why the model was never able to escape eventhough it should bave been very easy for her to do to?????

All in all I though it was a horrible movie, even by 1969 standards!

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The oddest thing was how the blind guy moved around with ease. He certainly didn't act like a blind man. The most blatant example is when he's chasing his captive around among the giant sculptures without a problem, but later when his mom is choking the girl RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM (!) he has trouble finding them. Huh???

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It is just a movie, so just adjust to it!

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Blind people are not bumbling idiots. Especially if they know their way around they can move just as well as anybody else. Sure, they need to be more careful, but being able to get around a place that one has created himself is very easy for a blind man. I've known many in my life.

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Since pubic hair was banned in Japan back in those days, not having the model cover up (or indeed having the couple remove their underwear!), would have involved a whole load of incredibly annoying mosaiccing effects which I'm sure you'll agree would have been more than a little distracting.

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Maybe she was just cold.

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To be fair she DOES try to escape at least once but fails thanks his mother. Once the mother is gone he becomes her only human contact which inevitably leads her to develop stockholm syndrome so she eventually stops wanting to leave entirely. You also have to bear in mind that she is held almost entirely inside her workspace which is implied to be devoid of light(they couldn't portray this accurately since it would result in most of the movie being nothing but a black screen) leading to her eyes to Atrophy and rendering her blind as well.

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Been slightly interested in this flick since I read about it in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR years and years ago. It sounded downright weird,freaky and disgusting,but intriguing anyway. Finally saw it online (without any English subs,unfortunately) but still enjoyed it---the set design was pretty impressive,and downright weird/bizarre/freaky as hell---like some tortured dreams from a deranged mind. Pretty good and intense, but that last half-hour was some seriously twisted and *beep* beyond belief. Just wondering---what the heck was that conversation between the model, the artist and the mother about--what was up with that? Why was the mother pissed off at both of them, it seemed? Why was she choking the model?

And last, but not least, why the hell was the mother helping the artist kidnap the model in the first place? Now that was some truly crazy s*** right there---it was bad enough that the artist was clearly a demented psycho, but the mama actually helping him and co-signing on all the insane s*** her son was into? Talk about a dysfunctional family with a capital D--damn!

Also, was the film a hit when it came out (in its native country or anywhere else) or did it just become an underground cult item, due to the subject matter? Just curious.

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The mother helps kidnap the model because it's just in mother's nature to do everything for her children, in this case it being an extreme way of not accepting to let go of the "child", and possibly it being an egoistical way of making him depend on her, but later on, the model becomes a threat to her "position".

She thinks of her son as uncorrupted, and she strives to preserve that by being over protective, or in fact, possesive of him(this is why he never had any friends in the first place) and she wanted to be the only human her son was in contact with. She could never accept that now her son would be corrupted by sexual desires/interest for the model. This is exactly the reason why she hated the girl and decided to kick her out, to "protect" her son.

sorry for my english.

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Thanks for the translation---I've since seen the film again---this time with subtitles---and still liked it--at least certain parts of it, anyway. All the while I was watching it, I was thinking, "This is the real 50 Shades right here!" I mean, this flick was way more disturbing than 50 Shades ever though it could be, and weird/strange as hell,too. But that was typical of '60s foreign arthouse films, which I like.

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People today expect a kind of "realism" that isn't always necessary in any art form, film or otherwise.

This film works best as a fantasy, a meditation on aspects of eroticism.

We've seen to much "reality" TV, which isn't at all real, which has spoiled us in the sense that we're now less able, as a culture, to accept emotional reality, even if the plot-specifics are not.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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