Bettelini, as director, lets the camera slide into an instinctive flow of Kubrickian and Polanskian legacies. The theme of the eye, the mirror of the soul, is at the center of the dynamics of this film. The morbidity of man for the theme of sight, the ambiguous to a terrestrial representation of Asmodeo, collector of souls. The eye, as an instrument of sight, is nothing but reduced to a fetish, charged with its spiritual value. Blindness, natural censorship of life, is seen with repression and, at the same time, with a perverse attraction. Man's perversion, devoid of sexual connotations, manifests itself in the maniacal use of instruments, referring to a complex delirium of omnipotence. The man and the woman are there, in a cage, she wants to escape, but cannot. A silent window is the door to the outside isolated, with which one cannot communicate. The door of Hades closed, the genius came out of the bottle, a gesture symbolized by the opening of the Pandora's box placed next to the doll, a puppet with human features, the culmination of the fetish of perfection.
Synthesis of a complex flow of perversion interwoven with fetishism, which results in the Kafkaesque horror.
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