Repulsion

Name: Repulsion
Genre: 18, 53, 27
Released: 1965

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Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

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Roman Polanski’s riposte to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was greeted as a brilliant, grisly potboiler that gave the thirty-two-year-old Polish filmmaker commercial entry to the West.Deneuve in Repulsion , like Ray Milland in Weekend, scrapes psychic bottom in isolation; she, like him, has scary hallucinations that emanate from the cracks in walls. And Polanski’s observant style owes a debt to Wilder’s. These directors rely on concrete detail to convey characters’ fluctuating senses.

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Repulsion is a 1965 psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski and written by him, Gérard Brach, and David Stone (these latter two having written the screenplay). It is the first of Polan…Bion used the feminine symbol for the container and a masculine one for the contained, implying, respectively, yonic and phallic symbolism. This sexual symbolism for the negative container/contained relationship is perfectly expressed in Carol’s PTSD reaction to having been raped.

Analysis of “Repulsion” – Infinite Ocean