Candy and a Movie: Don't Look Now (October Movie 1)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

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A girl plays with a ball down by a lake. This is a horror movie so it means that she drowns. Blood smear on a projector slide translates into her father (Donald Sutherland) pulling her out of the pond in her red jacket. Very cool visual and about the third one like this already five minutes in.

Some time later the mother and father are at lunch in Italy and a blind woman says she is a psychic and can see their daughter. She is happy according to the woman. That’s something I guess. She faints and then later tells about the psychic to her skeptic husband at the hospital.

Donald does something in church restoration and after visiting the place he is working on and meeting with the bishop they head back to their place. The wife opens up her suitcase and we see the little dead girl’s ball is in there. After a very naked bath, they get to doing it. A lot of flesh on the screen in fact too much is all I’m saying. It’s too long too, wrap it up already Donald.

In what seems like 7 hours later, they go out for the night and turn down a random alley where what looks like the daughter in her coat runs by. Nothing happens with it. The wife meets up with the psychic woman again and that night they to women try to contact the dead girl. Psychic yells and pants a lot without any progress. That’s the end of that.

She goes home and tells Donald that she thinks the girl is telling them to leave Italy. Don says that’s weird because she’s dead and those kind of people usually don’t have a lot to say in a not nice tone. The wife leaves the next day to check on their son and Don almost dies falling off a scaffolding at work. While walking home he sees the police pulling out a woman who drowned in the street. People only drown there in Venice.

Spoilers*

Don is coming home one day and see’s the wife and psychic randomly on a boat. He looks everywhere and can’t find them. Eventually he walks through some alleys and is followed by some guy. The wife bumps into the psychic and says she better find Don because the dead girl is coming for him. Finally some horror. Don sees a little shape in a red coat and thinks it’s the girl. He chases her through town into the church. He catches up to her crying in the attic except it isn’t his daughter. Instead a dwarf lady turns around and stabs him in the neck. Well more like barely chops him but he’s still bleeding all over the place.

Directly following that scene is his funeral. Before his death he has a few flashbacks. When he saw his wife after work it was really a vision of now and he has been getting pictures of his own death for a while now. The psychic said he also had the sight and was right about him being in danger after all.

Rating: 7.4 Milk Duds. The movie looks really great visually. There are lots of cool shots like the blood stains transitioning into other things and smartly place mirrors. That was what I took away most from the movie. The middle of the movie storywise got slow but the revelation at the end makes this a solid watch and a good start to the month.

Favorite Scene: Let’s say the whole first six minutes. Just really well done.

Memorable Lines: None from this one.

What I would’ve done if I was the main character: I would start off by getting a new hair cut. Next I would listen to the blind psychic woman because she obviously can see into the future. Also wouldn’t name my kid Kiefer.

What Happens in the Sequel: Don’t Look Now: No Peeking takes place in Philadelphia with the Sixth Sense kid. You can’t see dead people if you don’t look right? There's no five minute sex scene.