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STILLS FROM THE CONFORMIST

A human being is always suspended between the fickering lights clur !lter"

The camera tilts dwn t meet him

as he runs"

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the street and cars mrning hal#$

light% &erie' cld"

(lse$up"

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Sund bridge links scene in car t

this thing is it an auditin% Lynch' Mulhlland )ri*e%

+,hat will yu get ut # marriage%+

-eah buddy" S the present is nir

the past Techniclr"

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.etween tw wrlds"Stepping thrugh"

.etween per#rmance and

reality"

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The idelgy # #ascism is ne*er truly internalised by Marcell" Always a

per#rmance' always behind a glass screen"

Like /itler at a rally" .arbed mike"

The 0b" Interrgatin rm% One$

way mirrr cuts diagnally acrss #rame"

Like 1e23 45 years ld' insurance

agent6

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The Ministry"

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The minister7s 8ce"

Marcell peeps #rm behind the curtain" .ut wh is n stage%

)lly sht camera draws back as i#

reciling in disgust nauseating speed and re*eals the 8ce"

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.th !lm and #ascism re9uire

prps"

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Marcell is always dwar#ed by

the e:terirs"

The dress" ;uilia is s

bring she is literally part # the d

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Marcell is like a statue in many ways always awkward' his m*ements rigid"

;iulia is de!ned by her sensuality and childlike enthusiasm" Marcell en0ys bth

and yet despises her #r them"

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Obli9ue angles dminate the

e:terir shts"

(anted=

/e7s such a cant"

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Marcell runs away #rm an

appraching car nly t be met with irn bars which lea*e huge dark

laceratins n the screen" (an he escape #rm his past' #rm himsel#%

The mental institutin ;reek

theatre%

Marble tmbstnes and a strngwind"

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Typical noirsht but Marcell

is smehw always >ning ut= /e7s in s#t #cus while the lens is #cused n the

e:terir # the car and the lens drps" Is he real% )es the utside wrld e*er

really tuch him%

The cn#essin" /e nly

ccupies hal# the #rame"

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The seductin"

The priest wants details"

-ung Marcell !res tw shts int

the wall and nly then shts Lin the dri*er" T him' a persn is n mre r less

imprtant than a li#eless b0ect"

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Abut ;iulia3 +I want a nrmal li#e"

Middle$class girl6+

6" ?erceptins # nrmality3 @The

crwds listening t Mussllini in ?la>a ene>>ia+" -et they are nt nrmal their

wrld is grey' cld and rigid"

The hneymn BMarcell desn7t see anything wrng with taking C3

,hps=

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The fashbacks #rm the train 0urney are surreal is this a reliable recllectin #

real e*ents r a neiric hallucinatin% Als' nice !lter wrk there Strarr=

She7s a bit # a cant t descends

aggressi*ely' hlds railing like a weapn" ,ide angle"

The nir wman Anna" Masculine"

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It7s nt #ucking nrmal=

Shpping"

Is it all a shw #r M Bspying

#rm the drC%

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The wmen ali*e' sensual" The men mere shadws in #edra hats utside thewindw" The men are 0ust ha>y silhuettes"

Shiny happy peple" Are they the

nrmals M #etishi>es%

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Marcell in s#t #cus" Instead

camera #cuses n the windshield wipers anything is mre interesting than M%

The murder scene" Trees line

the rad like the lights in )I" Like sldiers' silent nlkers" ?er*erse symmetry"

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1ir"

Shit man= ?etic #allacy turned

noir"

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(n#rnting Lin"

The &nd"