The Night Porter 4K 1974 Ultra HD 2160p

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1957 year. A former Nazi and a former concentration camp prisoner accidentally meet in a Vienna hotel. The awakened memories of both the executioner and the victim kindle a strange, unnatural attraction between them, which the psychoanalyst would call sadomasochism.

Review 4K Movie

Masterpiece. Which surpasses and is not worth an Oscar or any other award in the world.

For a long time I could not collect my thoughts and finally write something about the "Night Porter". I reviewed it three times. And every time in a new way. Now we can confidently and firmly say: this CINEMA is impossible to understand, just as it is impossible to understand the author, the beautiful Liliana Cavani. Through him, you can only understand YOURSELF, your feelings, because the film definitely changes its meaning as a chameleon in front of a particular viewer. Probably everyone will consider something personal and original in it.

What, after all, is the story about? A question that tormented and did not give an answer. About love, about intimate? On the one hand, so. Still, the heroes love each other, but with a “strange love”. However, it is not for us to judge what Cupid is hovering between them: the law is just a stereotype, and the stereotype is stupidity. On the other hand, "The Night Porter" delves into psychology ... Yes, into what! Victim and executioner. And both voluntarily chose their own path. The topic is complex and ambiguous, I do not presume to disassemble it ... But where is Nazism, fascism and everything immoral that is connected with it? It is inconvenient to assert, but there is no such task in the film. Of course, the era, the background of that terrible time, the broken psyche of people and sick fantasies are conveyed. But in this case, painful dreams have become by no means a breeze of the era of suffering, but a single - maybe not - a case. A case carefully disguised as Nazi symbols. Why do I say that, but you disagree with me? Here's an argument: project the situation onto the present. Now everything has fallen into place, hasn't it?

I can't help but pay tribute to the scenes. Masterly staging, excellent performance. Especially the final scene is very good, it puts a big fat point in the monstrous story, but not separating from it, but quite logically complementing it. I always think, how is a person, a creator, able to think so strongly and non-trivially and put things like that? I myself would like to be Lars von Trier, buy huge white lilies with my last money and give them to director Liliana Cavani.

Beloved Dirk Bogard and incredible Charlotte Rampling did a tremendous job and gave all their 1000000%. Such an intensity of passions, torments, torments, such contradictory and irrepressible heroes, each of whom is gentle, and gloomy, and cruel, I have seen only a few times in my life.

Well, and once again about a personal impression. I am grateful to life for giving me a chance to see this. At first I missed this picture by myself. But then something made me reconsider. And again and again. And surprisingly, the stomach becomes cloudy every time after watching. Yes, and the heart starts to junk. It seems that there is nothing extra and purely intimate in the "Night Porter" from the point of view of a superficial adequate observer, but it grabs seriously ...