This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
我們需要這類的電影，雖然在某一節點上屬於挑撥觀眾情緒的視聽手法，但是其電影所呈現的角度確實犀利的，值得人們思考的，也願意去挖掘更多背後的歷史價值的，那其實就是一部好的電影。
求同存异，真的很美好
好像是我印象中唯一一部正面描述法官不公的影片，好像几乎所有的职业都可以黑，维度法官不可以~
感受到索金大神找到了自己的节奏，输出爆炸却张弛有度，内容多到这个地步却没有落入冗杂。撕开黑夜的人在结尾都渐渐露出了另一个自己，Tom的强硬、Abbie的肃然、David的挥拳、Schultz的敬意，只有傲慢与固执从一而终，永不变形。2020看起来很适合这部电影，50年后世界，侮辱与损害还在，壁垒与龌龊还在，硝烟与热血也还在。
-The world is watching! - Not really. 美国人不要再我即世界了。
铭记一句话，解释了美国官僚政府理应被民众认清的地位：
导演的场景调度能力好强！前面半个小时，我一直在想为什么要看这个？后面越来越投入！节奏快，思路清晰！
如果你判决所有人的藐视，那只能说明你正在被判决
4.5，为思想和文化倾向的审判，这场审判是由谁挑起的？是我们，我们的血。确实，嬉皮士的出发点是没有错的，可其对美国社会造成的影响和危害，是不能以“我们因思想受审”这种伪命题去一笔带过的，虽然没有反转，片子里仍充斥着那股摇滚和不服输的热烈，就和那所谓“垮掉的一代”殊途同归。
熟悉的快剪辑风格，最后的庭审戏还是挺燃的。
此时此刻此地，倒是无需去谈论人作为人 自由说话的权利，不妨更多去考虑，人作为人 去包容不同观点的能力。全世界都在看着呢。
不太了解美国这一段历史，观影过程略枯涩了一点，但结尾小雀斑庭审的那段戏还是很燃的！对比此时此刻的灯塔国，感觉导演有意无意还是借古喻今有一些讽刺的味道，不过反战的思想无论何时还是值得肯定的。
电影充分表达了现实的可悲，反战又如何，老话说的好“狗改不了吃屎”，表面光鲜正确的蒙太奇下，现实是如此地无力呢！
are we allowed to talk about it?
哎，其实有时候很多人只是不明白一个道理…………在某国，有思想洁癖和抱负的人要不出国移民，要不含恨终身……剩下的，只有镰刀和韭菜
Best liberal porn in a while and had a nice shout out to Brandeis lol.
公知笔下的灯塔国🇺🇸可真是老police state了，民主沦为政治工具since forever。
我以为庭审戏设计得太戏剧化了，结果竟然大部分都是在庭上真实发生的。
念名字的部分其实让我觉得稍微有点突然。剩下的就是完美，剧本太扎实了。
條理分明、不疾不徐的節奏，難得的一部不以聳動快閃的言詞及畫面來爭取認同的庭審辯證電影。
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