In my head, The Night Porter was going to be a Southern Gothic. I was wrong. Set twelve years after World War II in Vienna, it's the twisted story of a SS officer and his obsessed victim. S&M, ballet, caberet, and lots of Nazis. The victim, a very beautiful and frail Charlotte Rampling longs to be victim and object again. She ends up locked up in a hotel room, bound and gagged. The Night Porter tried for some seriously high minded stuff but didn't pull it off and settled for some fucked up sex instead. Upsetting viewing fare for a Tuesday night when I'd considered watching Caddyshack. I recently watch The Swimming Pool and yeah, that Charlotte Rampling has a taste for a certain sort of psychological thriller.
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