Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio.
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What a stunning debut from a young Italian film-maker. Great camera work, editing, and performances really bring this grim study of social unrest and familial dysfunction to life. It's difficult not to read this films in some ways as a searing indictment of fascism, though it was not apparently the director's intention. With that lens removed, it's somehow more unsettling; the nervous laughter at the pitch-black humor becomes almost a necessary comfort.
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Synopsis from Criterion: Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.
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