“You must think I’ve got a dirty mind, I change it so often.”
Thought this was gonna be a goofy B-thriller and instead I’m kind of obsessed! Ann-Margret is completely deranged, she’s neurotic, seductive, and impossible to predict. You never really know where she’s headed, and the film thrives on that instability.
Her dynamic with the stiff, buttoned-up politician is sheer proof of Octavia Butler's idea that opposites are sexy: young/old, chaos/control, desire vs. repression. He’s all restraint, she’s all impulse, and watching that imbalance spiral is the whole movie. Constant tension, sleek b&w cinematography, the jazzy score, and those little sharp cuts so unhinged, so provocative, and way more compelling than I thought it would be.
“You must think I’ve got a dirty mind, I change it so often.”
Thought this was gonna be a goofy B-thriller and instead I’m kind of obsessed! Ann-Margret is completely deranged, she’s neurotic, seductive, and impossible to predict. You never really know where she’s headed, and the film thrives on that instability.
Her dynamic with the stiff, buttoned-up politician is sheer proof of Octavia Butler's idea that opposites are sexy: young/old, chaos/control, desire vs. repression. He’s all restraint, she’s all impulse, and watching that imbalance spiral is the whole movie. Constant tension, sleek b&w cinematography, the jazzy score, and those little sharp cuts so unhinged, so provocative, and way more compelling than I thought it would be.
