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Carol, who works in a beauty salon in London, is both repulsed and fascinated by men. She is unsure of how to handle their advances, which are numerous because she is gorgeous. Gripped by mental illness, she eventually imprisons herself in her apartment, where she suffers from sexual dreams. Her delirium
… More »Carol, who works in a beauty salon in London, is both repulsed and fascinated by men. She is unsure of how to handle their advances, which are numerous because she is gorgeous. Gripped by mental illness, she eventually imprisons herself in her apartment, where she suffers from sexual dreams. Her delirium leads to dire circumstances.
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Violence: Brutal scenes of murder.
Sexual Content: Hallucinations of being repeatedly raped.
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Add a CommentWow, this movie is dark and disturbing and not an easy watch, I did it in 3 viewings a little bit at a time. I wonder why anyone would want to tell this story but here it is. No one does psychological torture like Roman Polanski and for what it is, he creates a pressure cooker with a master's touch. This is a definite precursor to 'Rosemary's Baby' with the femme fatale theme. I can see elements that Darren Aronofsky may have borrowed for 'Black Swan'. Like Aronofsky, I wish Polanski had done more in the horror genre, maybe it's not to late?
If nothing else, Repulsion certainly was a mighty bizarre, little tale about madness and murder._____ Released in 1965 and filmed in stark b&w, Repulsion starred the gorgeous, young beauty, Catherine Deneuve._____ At a very ripe 22, Deneuve convincingly played the character of Carol, a London manicurist and certified (blonde) space-cadet._____ In Repulsion director Roman Polanski skillfully stripped away, step-by-step, the apparent innocence of Carol's alluring and soft-spoken facade to reveal to us a human mind that was so deranged, deteriorated and disgusted by even the touch of a man that it plunged this frigid, iceberg of a woman into a world of mad, sexually-charged hallucinations of rape and the inexplicable envisioning of the apartment walls splitting open._____ And not even when the delusional Carol resorted to the horrid task of brutal, butchering murder could this long-repressed demon of man-hating and insanity (that lurked so undetected within) be exorcised._____ With a musical score containing strains straight out of "Psycho", Repulsion is certainly quite a grim, little shocker that's bound to leave the viewer feeling mighty uneasy about things long after the whole horror-show is all over.
Unfortunately, this film fell flat for me from the beginning. I could not care for any of the characters, especially for Carol who I thought of as silly overall. I have not seen any other films done by Roman Polanski so I cannot say if slowness and boredom is the norm for his films, but I can certainly say that I was bored nearly to tears with this one.