*****
At the time, it was a scandal: erotic thriller It started with a blonde in the middle of a sexual act smashing a man with an ice pick, and then it continued with more and more eroticism and more and more blood.
But it turns out that Paul Verhoeven was always a satirist and the film tells how a thriller writer (the brilliant performance of Sharon Stone, the best in its history) is used as a “model” for the murders. Or maybe she is the murderer, but what she counts is that she drives the gray that she plays crazy Michael Douglas.
film about the feminine powerabout him simulacrum and the sexOver the social prejudices and, above all, about the cinema (it is almost a parody of Vertigo at times), low instincts it was at the same time a provocation and a genius that time put in its place. And it is -like almost everything from the Dutch director- hilarious.
