Week 10 La Decimal Vittima

Week 10 blog task to post brief comments and thoughts on La Decimal Vittima.

A campy futuristic tale where people hunt one another for sport. In this film, Victim and Hunter run around Italy trying to score a kill in front of the movie crews they arranged so they could make commercials from the footage.

To judge this film by "today's standards" misses the point--what are we comparing it to? Armageddon? Scream 3? This was the European 60s vision of the 'future'-- and why didn't it turn out that way? An odd, cheeky little plot mixing romance, light sci-fi and gunplay is underscored by dazzling visuals in a similar style to The Prisoner series, or Alphaville (if it were in colour). Piero Piccioni's score is pure 'Jazz 2001', and is available as an import reissue. It all depends on what you're after, but personally I wish the WORLD LOOKED like this movie and that men's and women's fashion reflected this film's 'in the future, people will dress like this' style.

This film is a comedy because it over exaggerates and stereotypes is certain parts, but at the same time is interesting and fun to watch. Within the film the main theme of the movie is set out and shown to be a game and the solution for the problem in the film is violence.