However, rest assured there will be more bloodletting, including a scene of a dog tearing a man’s throat apart until it looks like a bowl of spaghetti bolognese.īeyond such carnage, Dark Glasses is mostly about Diana adapting to her new disability, with a coach (Asia Argento, in perhaps her most subdued role of all time) guiding her through the steps and hooking her up with a service canine who likes to bite bad guys. Those early moments of violence are actually some of the only ones in a movie that’s fairly light on the gore and heavy on the sappiness, as if Argento’s knives had been dulled by age. On her way out she’s accosted by the murderer, who chases her in a van and provokes an accident that leaves Diana blinded and a little Asian boy, Chin (Xinyu Zhang), with two dead parents. The mysterious killer next targets Diana, who happens to be a call girl herself, catering to a wealthy older man in his high-class lair. The plot then kicks in when, as is de rigueur for the director, a prostitute has her neck slashed in the street by a masked maniac, blood spewing onto the sidewalk and shocking all the passing Romans. Shot in eerie, diffused light by Matteo Cocco ( Blue Eyes), scored with a retro electro beat by Arnaud Rebotini ( BPM) and using lots of dissolves, the scene is vintage Argento in its banal creepiness, transforming a regular scientific phenomenon into something otherworldly. The opening, which follows a mysterious young woman, Diana (Illenia Pastorelli), as she drives into town and stops in a park to watch a total eclipse of the sun, is probably the best sequence in the movie, and it’s too bad the rest never quite lives up to that moment.
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