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L’innocente (Die Unschuld)
Directed from a wheelchair, yet anything but a testament. L'innocente returns to the masterful command of coolly epic and relentlessly precise realism. A libertine flaunts his contempt for morality by cheating on his wife in front of the whole world. When she enters into a liaison, he basks in the pose of the fascinated consenting partner until the old patterns of machismo awaken in him. Visconti changes the ending from the novel. Tormented by the shame of wounded masculinity, the appointed superman chooses to take his own life. The conceit of his class, according to Visconti's critique of D'Annunzionism (and the fascist motto of ‘dangerous living’ that feeds on it), triumphs. A society doomed to die: behind its freedom lies decadence, behind its decadence lies selfishness, behind its selfishness lies lies, arrogance and self-pity. No farewell. A precise film full of grimness and contempt. (H.T.)