Fragment of Fear (1970)

　　1970英国剧情悬疑片《Fragment of Fear》由Richard C. Sarafian导演，David Hemmings主演，影片讲述的是：
Richard Sarafian is a decidedly underrated director After finally seeing this its satisfying to report his VANISHING POINT was not a flashinthepan FRAGMENTdoes not move at the same pace nor does it get the viewer involved quite as quickly but once youre about twenty minutes in youre hooked until the end as Sarafian and screenwriter Dehn continually manipulate reality and our perceptions of it along with lead character David Hemmings perceptions of it Really brilliant in the way it portrays a matteroffact unfolding of events that seem like a conventional yet still insidious conspiredmurderbyblackmailring plot But then were constantly shown by the dialogue and actions of other characters that these events weve just witnessed may never have occurred As an audience were constantly being shifted back and forth momentarily convinced that recoveringaddictturnedsuccessfulwriter Hemmings is undergoing paranoid delusions then the next moment convinced there really is a vast conspiracy against him and his investigation into his rich aunts death Disturbing and constantly involving sucking the viewer in until the shocking conclusion Unfortunately the films one real liability which may in fact be the reason for some viewers antipathy toward this film is its totally inappropriate music score Not only is the score mixed too loud on the soundtrack it repeatedly draws attention to itself often diffusing the effects Sarafian is trying to achieve If only they had gotten someone like John Dankworth who could have composed a similar jazzy score but much more subtly and in keeping with the films rhythms Of course even better would have been Ennio Morricone someone who had already scored many Italian giallo thrillers that had attempted to play with reality in a similar way Whomever hired Johnny Harris made a big mistake His score is the one thing that keeps this from being a genuine little masterpiece
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