The Guilty Spectator: Sexuality, Age, Crime and Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975)

IF 0.1 4区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

FILM CRITICISM Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI:10.3998/fc.5697

Jim Carter

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Abstract

This article performs a close reading of Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975) together with a speculative reading of how the film seems to address its spectator and what that spectator might think about the film. It argues that Argento’s murder mystery invests in the contemporary association between homosexuality and crime to concentrate suspicion in the character of Carlo, who is innocent. The film also exploits the disassociation of old age from crime to divert attention from the character of Martha, who is guilty. The double revelation of Carlo’s innocence and Martha’s guilt effects a sudden foregrounding of the spectator’s own flawed process. Deep Red does not simply unmask the murderer—it unmasks the spectator.1

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有罪的旁观者：性、年龄、犯罪与达里奥-阿金托的《深红》（1975 年）

本文对达里奥-阿基多（Dario Argento）的《深红》（1975 年）进行了细读，并对影片似乎如何面对观众以及观众对影片的看法进行了推测性解读。文章认为，阿基多的这部悬疑谋杀影片利用了当代同性恋与犯罪之间的联系，将怀疑的焦点集中在无辜的卡罗身上。影片还利用老年与犯罪的脱节，转移人们对有罪的玛莎的关注。卡罗的清白和玛莎的罪行的双重揭露，使观众自身的缺陷过程突然凸显出来。深红》不仅揭开了凶手的面具，还揭开了观众的面具1。

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