{"id":7485,"date":"2007-03-19T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T06:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:40:41","slug":"jai-arjun-singh-on-dressed-to-kill-by-brian-de-palma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/jai-arjun-singh-on-dressed-to-kill-by-brian-de-palma\/","title":{"rendered":"The kinetic energy of Brian De Palma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bookdetails\">\n<div id=\"bookimage\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005K3NU\/jabberwock-20\"><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/dressed-to-kill-brian-de-palma.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"The kinetic energy of Brian De Palma\" alt=\"image\" width=\"73\" height=\"106\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bookmaininfo\">\n<p class=\"booktitle\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Dressed to Kill<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookauthor\"><strong>By:<\/strong> Brian De Palma<\/p>\n<p class=\"amazonlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005K3NU\/jabberwock-20\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!-- bookmaininfo --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- bookdetails --><\/p>\n<p>With deference to Altman and Scorsese, my favourite American director from that great decade, the 1970s, is Brian De Palma. De Palma&#8217;s visual sense, his understanding of how the camera can be used as a tool of manipulation, is masterful &#8211; his films have a kinetic, visceral energy that&#8217;s analysis-defying and that transcends their often-pulpish subject matter. Watching them, I get a sense of cinema as a medium in its own right, rather than an extension of literature.\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much of De Palma&#8217;s work is built on templates created by Alfred Hitchcock, and <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005K3NU\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Dressed to Kill\">Dressed to Kill<\/a><\/I> uses <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0783225849\/jabberwock-20\" title=\"Psycho\">Psycho<\/a><\/I> as its model. In this case, the attractive protagonist who is unexpectedly murdered early in the film (in an elevator, not a shower) is a middle-aged lady cheating on her husband. Her science-nerd son teams up with a prostitute and a psychiatrist (!) to find the killer, who turns out to have a split personality. This premise affords De Palma plenty of scope for his visual flourishes, beginning with a superb, dizzying (and entirely wordless) scene set in a museum, which creates the sort of tension and ambivalence Hitchcock would have been proud of. 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