Read all the comments. They all felt what I feel about this dark little treasure...it must be preserved on DVD. The music was as "haunting" as the story. In my youth, Boston in the 60's,..I went to see this film and it opened a new dimension of love/lust, to this Mid-western farm boy. I had just found Felini, Ingamar Bergmann, George Stevens and foreign films as well.
Intense, passionate, angst of sexual love and lust, made even "juicer" by it being your father's wife. The sexual betrayal is really about having sex with your father thru his wife's body.
Oedipal twist, struggling with jealousy, self-doubt, with one's father's mature sexual powers, his mother's attraction, and needing to be like Dad, to "top" Dad, but too afraid to try, he goes for his father's object of lust/love? Fritz Perls knew what to do.
To save the son from his fearful gay feelings for his father, she, the woman "sacrificed herself", for "them"... besides, she lonesome too.
And this emotional fog, with all its questions, only makes the story even better and more convoluted and "delicious" to me. ha
Mother feels the struggle between the men, and in a maladaptive action to move toward "wholeness" empathetically, shares her bed with her son.
Son finds a "temporary comfort" in having his sexual "audition", with his father's "other half". The son then realizes he has crossed the line, and now all hell breaks loose and he, of course, is sentenced by Life, to die. Praedra must be killed, and Dad must commit suicide I guess?
Triangles always are painful. They ALL lose here.
The upside-down unconscious gay connection to his father, and by using the female body of his mother, only hides the real problem, and all are destroyed by this sexual adventure. Feelings are facts they say.
It would have been "healthier" for the son to be "invited" into his parent's bed and resolve his "ambiguous" sexual orientation issues, in the arms of his father and his mother. There's a huge erotic bomb here for all? ha How would Woody Allen directed this story?
I realize this comment is not going to win me any flowers from others, but that's my perception and it could happen just as I have outlined.
I am pleased others found this film, a great treasure, and hopefully will be released on DVD.
Anthony Perkins's wife, was a photo-journalist,knew he was gay, and was on one of the jetliners that were hi-jacked and flown into the World Trade Center on 9-11. The Perkins' sons are now adults. VSS
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