What to expect
Erich von Stroheim’s directing debut turns glances, uniforms, meals, and mountain space into a study of marriage and predation. The title’s blindness is ethical before it is visual.
How to ease in
The triangle is simple: the husband neglects, the officer manipulates, and the wife must read both men. Watch who notices discomfort and who treats it as opportunity.
Heads-up
At an Alpine hotel, a neglected wife attracts the attention of an officer while her husband underestimates both her loneliness and the danger around them.
The husband fails to see his wife; the officer sees her only as an opening. I find the film sharpest when attention itself becomes either care or exploitation.
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The husband fails to see his wife; the officer sees her only as an opening. I find the film sharpest when attention itself becomes either care or exploitation.
— Momo
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