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The Wicker Man

Based on a text of the prestigious novelist and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer ("Frenzy," "Sleuth") Robin Hardy adapted with a light and carefree approach this unusual thriller features, due in part to have been conceived as a musical director ethnographic , which can either divert the viewer's attention, turn your concentration, or maybe give a breath of fresh air to anyone who wants to see something different from the typical horror film of the era, which had already been explored almost all topics that could offer the genre, everything is ultimately a matter of taste. The truly significant film is its parodic vision of Western society, the comparison of various religious rituals and sexual freedom and lack of decency of the community, a fact that torments deeply conservative and good Christian Sergeant Howie.

This work has all the characteristics of a cult, especially what was achieved with such a tight budget, for example, both the dark and rich Scottish landscapes photographed by Harry Waxman, the folk music of Paul Giovanni, the presence of great performers, including Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee's iconic and beautiful blonde female as Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and. First, future Bond girl, the second ex-wife of 007 himself, Sean Connery.

Quintessential cult film within the horror genre, "The Wicker Man" is still a rare bird that surprises the unclassifiable of its proposal for its unusual mix of genres, the beauty of natural landscapes that are rolled, for the dreamlike photography that gives the hallucinatory and hallucinatory atmosphere and the many small details that enrich his sensational staging. Must see the Director's Cut to enjoy it in its fullness.

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Thus, the splendid screenplay by Shaffer has a tendency to ridicule the beliefs sanctimonious Sergeant (it is worth remembering the scene in which Howie is outraged at a ceremony because women are jumping a fire completely naked, to which replies with Lord Summerisle overwhelming logic: "Naturally, it is much more dangerous jump over the fire with your clothes on," or when the latter defines Jesus as "Son of a virgin impregnated by a ghost"), but we finally reached an end that reveals the dark side of some villagers capable of committing the folly of human sacrifice as a sign of offering to the gods save their crops, so that criticism of religion is balanced exacerbated by both parties.

With a dazzling Christopher Lee as master of ceremonies (true patron of the movie, love all the old pagan religions and esoteric cults that enclose the old rituals, always said "The wicker man" as one of his favorite movies) and Edward Woodward giving a strong and credible replica (on paper, though, that only Peter Cushing could have definitely sublimate), the film offers a wonderful crescendo of the plot up to the tremendous climax narrative, giving us one of the most chilling end gender history and leaving behind countless scenes to remember: our retinas will be stored forever, among others, the scene of the sensual dance of a nude Britt Eckland testing the temperance of Sto. Howie and the hypnotic set of masks that infiltrates the protagonist in search of the missing girl (real McGuffin of the film).

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Added by Rath
12 years ago on 7 March 2012 12:29