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Title: Monstrous Passions
Review: A delightful film for visionary blindness and inspiration run wild... our most infatuating dreams are our most deadly. And its hilarious too. However the movie is exceptionally dark beneath the thin surface of comic understatement. A half-baked teacher leads one student to her death by her teaching, and another to heart-wrenching seduction, by her example. The need for heroism is revealed as egoistic violence. There are No redeeming characters. (Innocence of young children is accentuated only in order to be denied.)The whole philosophy of the film could be summed up by Brodie exclaiming, "I will not let them crucify me."A wonderful film for a glimpse of our psychological undercurrent, our popular and modern mode--a bottomless pit.
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