Angelo restages the act by masturbating into Klaus’ face, and then, like a wild animal marking its territory, sadistically arranges for Klaus’ wife Griselda to visit Klaus so that she can see the semen on Klaus’s face. Another excellent example of the film’s culturally specific use of modern and primitive modes of violence is the film’s most notorious, and most harrowing scene: the murder of a young boy by gas injection. Unlike those great filmmakers, however, Villaronga is not creating suspenseful entertainments or glacial exercises in style; instead, he's, probing the heart of moral darkness. With this in mind, the “Special Edition” DVD release from Cult Epics is something to rejoice about. Angelo’s elimination of the two women –Griselda and Jornalera– reflects the “negation of the mother” while his stealing of Klaus’ diary, wearing of the black coat, and his acts of sadism and ritualized serial killing reflect “the inflation of the father.” The only missing piece is the “alliance of the father and daughter” which occurs in the film’s final scene, which completes the sadistic Oedipal transformation. A young man named Angelo (an avenging ‘angel’?) A second possible reading elaborates on the first by adding a reflexive element centered on the act of watching. “Blood, Fuck, God: The Prodigal Crimes of Gilles de Rais.” Fierce Language. 2) In a Glass Cage: The ‘Dangers’ of Looking. Villaronga (who also wrote the script) fills his frame with some beautiful images and the dark blue look makes the film even more colder, depressing. After Klaus kills a chained up naked boy in a dark cavern, he attempts suicide by jumping from the top of a high building. While this is the first time I have seen it, word of mouth was that the old DVD was crummy, not even in widescreen. DeBoer, Jason. The prototype of the “horror of mind” film Psycho was also instrumental in introducing the sub-theme of the sadistic gaze in its precise structuring of the point of view shot and voyeurism, and the way it shifts audience identity from the hero/victim (Marion Crane) to the killer (Norman Bates/Mrs. In the book Kinder contextualises the violence in In a Glass Cage (along with several other films in chapter 4 of the book) within both the past and the immediate Spanish political and cultural history. Angelo has lured a young boy back to the estate as a sacrificial victim in a ritualistic killing where he will restage a murder as described by Klaus in his diary. He then moves behind the boy, picks up a wooden plank, clubs him fatally in the back of the head (off screen), and walks up to the roof of the building. Then the subjective point of view switches back to Klaus, as he leaps from the tower, which puts him in the iron lung, where he is infantilized and passive, like his young victims and like the cinematic spectator. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. These first five shots all fade in from dark to light: a close-up of an eye; a close-up of a camera lens; a close-up of dangling feet; a close-up of a Klaus taking a photograph of the hanging boy; and a close-up of small tied-up hands. Of these instances the latter two are the ones with greatest significance with respect to the notion of ritualized violence. What ensues is a descent into the tormented psyche of young Angelo, as he becomes obsessed with Klaus’ murderous past and begins to enact Klaus’ sadistic acts as described in his diary. Within this reading there is the sub-theme of the attraction to evil, with the film offering two psychopaths, the Nazi Klaus, a pedophilic doctor who takes sexual pleasure in torturing and sadistically murdering boys, and the young, impressionable mind who becomes his protégé, Angelo. Volume 9, Issue 12 / December 2005 The third possible source of meaning in the film is figurative rather than literal, and involves placing it within the context of Spain’s social-cultural-political history. In his in-court confession at his trial, Gilles described how he and his lackeys ‘inflicted various types and manners of torment; sometimes they severed the head from the body with dirks, daggers, and knives, sometimes they struck them violently on the head with a cudgel or other blunt instruments, sometimes they suspended them with cords from a peg or small hook in his room and strangled them; and when they were languishing, he committed the sodomitic vice on them,’ before or even after death.” DeBoer adds that, “Always the aesthete, Gilles looked upon his victims with the eye of a connoisseur, remarking on the boys with the finest skin or the prettiest limbs; he would keep the most handsome of the decapitated heads and kiss them with adoration. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. To elaborate on the ritualistic (eroticized) use of violence in Spanish culture author Kinder refers to two writers, René Girard and his work Violence and the Sacred and Tzvetan Todorov’s Conquest of the Americas. flirts with social irresponsibility; nonetheless it flirts with the grisly theme of the seductiveness of Sadean bloodlust.

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