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Title: Chilling
Review: Another tale of decadence by Lucchino Visconti... The Damned is the story of a family belonging to Germany's establishment, those people who thought they were so smart they could use the Nazis; the movie shows quite clearly who really hold the strings. But more interesting is the way the theme of damnation is waved into the historical description of the rise of nazism: Faust is never very far as everybody in the movie except for the occasional hapless innocent soul (Herbert, best described as a reactionary rather than a socialist) sells their soul for whatever reason they have: greed, hatred, envy. Grottesque and grand in turn the atmosphere is one of utter depravation, conspiring to make this movie an authentic modern tragedy. Appropriately, the Oedypian reference is also, hm... quite explicit.
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