The Damned

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David B As cold and sterile as a brand new walk-in freezer. Even the nude bodies are as sexless and lifeless as raw fillets that have just had the silver skin peeled off them. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/22/23 Full Review Tamara K You know you're watching a film with no quality control when Nazis are smoking filter tipped cigarettes when they were invented until the 1950s. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/24/23 Full Review kliff h 12/10-22 (rewatch) Criterion 2K. A long dark and gritty section of Viscontis visions of the Nazi rise to power. Its hard to not think of movies in the same genre like, Salo, Mephisto, The Night Porter etc. So much suffering and hardship in the 30-40s, endless disgust and countless lives taken for no good reason. Yet Visconti himself, as openly gay at the time and beyond, makes this into a crusade for his proclaiming sexuality, protraiting the nazis as very overrepresentive gay, as to faulter them even more. So were parts are manageable realistic it turns to a orgy fest, without any real grip of reality. He paints the dangers though lack to emphasise it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought it was boring . I love Italian cinema but of the 3 Visconti films I've watched only Ludwig grabbed my attention. Lots of overacting and quite a lot of dull moments. What is the point of all this . Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/22 Full Review Audience Member I'd forgotten just how sick and twisted a film The Dammed is. Probably the best account of the moral corruption of Nazism. Seen through a family tearing itself apart. Essential cinema. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Not only the generalized victims suffered during pre-WW2, everyone suffered. Even the bourgeois class suffered. The Damned gives us a perspective not very unlike movies like "The Night Porter, Mr.Klein and Mepisto", kind of the same essence are being absorbed. The cold innerself, lost in the shell of a sharp dressed appearance, until the mind gets lost into the absurd seriousness of the fall of a nation, an empire and nearly the whole world. Hollow, empty and meaningless alongside the strive for class, lust and pleasure. Intoxicated gay nazi's are being slaughtered, not sadisticly but relentless. Visconti beating Pasolini with 6 years of settling onto the sadistic nazi/fascistic empire. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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