Second viewing; first viewed between 1983 and 1986.
A male escort and prostitute is framed for the murder of one of his clients.
Viewing this film for a second time was a pleasanter experience than my first one. Formally, there are evident qualities in it. In other aspects as well, it is not as bad as I previously thought (e.g. the main actor's performance). Nevertheless, I could not completely shake off a certain boredom over the progression of the plot and certain pieces of dialogue. Furthermore, the film's underlying concept seems unfocused, and what superficially seems to be an utterly secondary plot point came across, in my analysis, as the film's underdeveloped real center. The point in question, as expressed by one character, is the situation when "you have stepped on too many toes, and nobody cares about you". It is very hard to gather, from the movie itself, what exactly those "toes" are, but then again the events in question may be of a strictly imaginary order.
Rating: 40 (up from 30)
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