The film is very good and the study extensive. The point is not the psychopath killer but the victim, and this is not as well documented as the former for the sake of suspense of the police movie genre. The story allows to debase the victim on grounds of being promiscuous but we should remember we are still at 1973 Greece. Other than that it is a must see. Ms Marketaki the woman who directed the film does a good job given that she has to fight on every side for this result.
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deickos10 April 2017
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dimouzakitis-122 May 2007Definitely one of the best ever Greek films. Unfortunately, in Greece we do not discuss a lot this masterpiece.The construction of the film has been constructed geniously in many levels. I think that the young - and also the older - directors should study on this film and pay the prompt attention even after 10 and more years after the death of the creator...the film combines and interacts between psychological, social, ideological level in a very sensitive period for the Greek society...The characters are complete and they project to the social context.. Definitely Tonia Marketaki was one of the greatest Greek Auters.She could stand profoundly next to Angelopoulos or Boulgaris
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Stories about crimes or sensational events based on reconstructive testimony have already been explored in comedy, as in this dramatic form; Both perspectives, for my taste, waste the versatility of the Cinema and reduce it to a dramatized report; but this feature film also has a script with some mediocre dialogues "power is like semen, it must find a way out", there are many scenes that should have been cut to be less tiresome, especially the statements at the police headquarters, what is the point of collecting almost an hour of the different testimonies at the beginning, (and the same amount of the trial at the end, which is redundant) if a mystery is not going to be sustained because after 90 minutes the part of Ioannis Zachos will come with his masks, his drawings of skulls and his dracula books and obvious candidacy to be the disturbed psycho without attention behind the bloody murder?; Why make a work of 180 minutes that could have been thrown in 11o? We did not find out about the debauchery of the victim, Eleni, because the aunt attests to her affair with a plumber, or because of the statements of the boy who took her to the beach and fornicated and did not even feel like calling her again, or because of the post mortem that shows that he had sex around 6, the time he should have been working and whose news angers the fiancé. In any case, if there is something, what is hardly salvageable in this boring plot is what Michel Foucalult pointed out many times, the exclusion protocol that the penal systems already have in place and with those that link A and D who lack the evidence B and C. It was enough with the accusation that was only the assumption of the aunt Konstantina Stavrianou + the confession of the minor himself (he was barely 15 at that time) to join the knives and weapons from the drawer of Ioannis's room. Because it could not be confirmed if the owner of the Spyros kiosk actually saw Ioannis or someone else make the phone call to the emergency services when the crime was not yet known. Without the victim's blood on it, for no reason because he didn't even know the deceased and only because of the statements that the boy himself would later give, about his fondness for masturbating sometimes, his possible impotence, his failed erotic relationship with Aleka the first time. , and later the aunt's revelation that the mother of the alleged murderer was admitted to a psychiatric asylum when the child was barely 5 years old.