Informal English title: The Seventh Target
A retired journalist suffers a series of automotive attacks and anonymous phone calls. He investigates the affair with the help of the police and discovers that he is apparently not the first victim of those criminals.
I guess one could define paranoia as a disease of the mind which renders it incapable of assessing probabilities as applied to one's own life. This film is not the only one to exploit the film viewer's tendency to that kind of disease, but it is certainly an extreme example of such. Here, unlike in Kafka's The Trial, it's not a State institution but a private organization who is causing all the trouble. Also unlike the Kafka novel, here all the details are worked out in the way of an explanation, implausible though it turns out to be. The end result is less than thrilling, but maybe I am being unfair to it.
Rating: 30
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