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Don't
Look Now (1973, UK/It.)
In Nicolas Roeg's haunting and classic supernatural
thriller based upon a Daphne du Maurier short story tale:
- the early sudden scene (filmed with a Steadi-cam)
of the tragic drowning death of the red-raincoated, young Baxter
daughter Christine (Sharon Williams) in a muddy fishpond in England
- the explicit, realistic love-making scene between
art restoration expert John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and wife Laura
(Julie Christie) (was it authentic or simulated sex?) - intercut
with their post-coital dressing to go out - while they were on a
recuperative vacation in Venice after their daughter's death
Explicit Love-Making Between Baxters
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- the repetitive thematic images of water, the color
red, miscommunication, doppelgangers (or duplicates), and shattered
glass
- the bloody, shocking murderous conclusion in which
John's neck was sliced by a red-hooded, wizened-faced dwarf figure
in a dark Venetian alleyway
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Tragic Drowning of Baxter Daughter
The Shocking Murder of John Baxter by Red Raincoated Dwarf
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