The Damned

This film (drama)Also known asOssessione，is aItalyProducerwomen sex，At1943Released in year 。The dialogue language isItalian，Current Douban rating7.6(For reference only)。

Adapted from the American novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain, completed in 1941, under the filming conditions that required the script to be censored by the fascist government, Visconti transformed this story of an adulterous murder of a husband into a work filled with a sense of despair and fatalism. In the film, the female protagonist, who comes from a poor background, is forcibly married to a fat and coarse innkeeper; she lacks the courage to escape her life of being a kept woman (and occasionally being humiliated), while the male protagonist is a wandering unemployed man who cannot resist the female protagonist's temptation and commits a fatal crime. The harsh social conditions clearly highlight the inevitable fate of the two protagonists, who have no choices and are drawn together. In his debut as a director, Visconti already demonstrates his later works' greatest characteristic: the delicate portrayal of the characters' inescapable psychological desires. In the moments of dining, the male and female characters gaze at each other's bodies, where Visconti explicitly juxtaposes the harsh material living conditions with the unrestrained inner lust, compensating for the brevity of the adulterous process.