{"id":10721,"date":"2017-01-08T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2017-01-08T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T16:32:21","slug":"italy-call-battle-royale-cheese-watch-tenth-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2017\/01\/italy-call-battle-royale-cheese-watch-tenth-victim.html","title":{"rendered":"In Italy, They Call It “Battle Royale with Cheese”: I watch “The Tenth Victim”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Did you know that there\u2019s a \u201960s sunlit dystopia flick about a game show\/social control mechanism where you hunt folk? Did you know it\u2019s also a romcom starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress? The Tenth Victim<\/em> is wigged-out, askew, sexy in a PG-13 adolescent kind of way, and the most Roman movie I\u2019ve ever seen. (I\u2019ve seen The Great Beauty<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n

I loved this thing. I loved the interview with the \u201chunter\u201d: \u201cDo you believe in God?\u201d \u201cOf course.\u201d \u201cDo you believe in the family?\u201d \u201cA little less.\u201d \u201cWhy did you go blond?\u201d<\/p>\n

I loved the location-scouting: \u201cLet\u2019s not fool ourselves. The Vatican wouldn\u2019t allow it. They\u2019re against the Big Hunt.\u201d \u201cYes, but I have friends\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

I loved the sunset-worshipers and their protesters. I loved the propaganda slogans (\u201cWhy control the births when we can increase the deaths?\u201d \u201cLive dangerously, but within the law\u201d). I loved the black-and-white clothes. I loved the America vs. Italy stuff\u2013Andress plays an American who\u2019s baffled by the idea that a man would be married only once. \u201cIs he\u2026 all there?\u201d she asks, trying to figure out this bizarre creature. (Also the romance is totally okay, guys, he got an annulment! This movie, I tell you.) In the USA you can hunt people just absolutely anywhere whereas in Rome entertainment-murder is strictly regulated.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a weirdly prescient analysis of why terror of divorce makes people avoid marriage<\/a>. Also, my goodness, there\u2019s some Ursula Andress all up in your face.<\/p>\n

There are grim subcurrents here\u2013all the maimed and bandaged postwar people, \u201cThis year it\u2019s trendy to kill women,\u201d etc\u2013but all of it is played as colorful sunshine satire. Just an unnecessarily smart movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t mind, take the television last.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that there\u2019s a \u201960s sunlit dystopia flick about a game show\/social control mechanism where you hunt folk? Did you know it\u2019s also a romcom starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress? The Tenth Victim is wigged-out, askew, sexy in a PG-13 adolescent kind of way, and the most Roman movie I\u2019ve ever seen. 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