Never expected that there was a silent psychological thriller out there on 60's which was buried and not much spoken about. Its sad that few films get very delayed recognition beyond its timeout period. Below quote from Director would say it all
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| Michael Powell |
Movie is about a disturbed photographer working for a British film studio , who has a rare disorder called peeping Tom which urges him to kill women and capture their expression of fear in their eyes during their last moments. And as how he adapts , reacts when he is exposed to true love 'n' care and how that changes his life totally forms the story.
What makes this movie creepy is by the way they portray his emotions in a vivid form at same time inducing his darker side slowly with every frame. This allows viewers to read his unique character filled with much darker secrets behind him therewith letting us know his weird condition which was instead inherited from his Scientist father who used his own son to read the behavior of human being by capturing every minute of his life in camera recorder. This resulted in causing a great scar on him creating a obsession to document peoples fear in his own camera to read their psychology. Ending was kind of predictable but one might feel sympathy for him who was nothing but a victim of his dad's experiment and a deadly phenomena which would entirely change his son life upside down. The moment we notice his camera one day turning towards him to record his own fate would cause melancholic feel to the viewers irrespective of the fact he is a cold blooded murderer.
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