Blind Girl Horror is a 1967 drama thriller directed by Terrance Young and starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Akin. This film, as a suspense crime film not directed by Hitchcock, is as interesting as Heath's suspense film.
The film takes a drug trafficking crime as the carrier, and the scene of the drug crime shifts from the group criminal gang to the level of the criminal gang and the unsuspecting civilians, which makes the audience feel more different.
For ease of understanding, I divided the film into four segments:
The first paragraph introduces the background of the story, which is equivalent to an introduction. A girl dressed in mink, Lisa, returned to New York from Canada, holding a rag doll in her hand at the airport. When she got off the plane and left JFK Airport, in order to avoid inspection, she talked to a photographer, Handris, and handed him the rag doll. Unknowingly, Hendris takes home a doll filled with drugs, but when Lisa calls him for the doll, she can't find it.
The murderous and cunning drug dealer Lote immediately follows, believing that Lisa wants to eat alone, and kills Lisa when she goes to Handris's house to find the doll. Lisa had originally made an appointment with her former social partners Taman and Carlino to help her find the doll, which was just used by Lot, through the threat of money lures and murder, pulling the two social fritters together into the thrilling adventure of finding the "poisonous" doll.
Hendris's blind wife, Susie, returns home, unable to continue their search and leaves to dump the body.
The second paragraph tells the story of criminals using deception in the hope of getting rag dolls. The next day, after Susie's husband goes to work, the drama continues in a relatively claustrophobic space, that is, Susie's home.
One of the characters involves 5 people. Susie, a blind woman, and Gloria, a little girl in the neighborhood, are unsuspecting participants who initially know nothing about the dangers around them, and then gradually figure out what the people around them are doing.
The three criminals, doing their best to deceive the gang, hope to get the rag doll that they think about day and night through threats, police investigation, etc. One of them was Taman, posing as a friend of Susie's husband during his service in the army; one was Carino, posing as a local police inspector, responsible for the cases that arose in the jurisdiction; and the other was a real drug dealer, Roth, who played two roles, pretending to be the father-in-law and husband of a mysterious woman suspected of having an affair with her blind female photographer husband.
The three men worked with Susie's house in a car parked at the phone booth at Susie's apartment, bombarding susie in turns, destroying Susie's mental defenses, making her mistakenly believe that her husband was having an affair with someone else's wife and killing the woman, and that the cause of everything was a rag doll, so she willingly asked Taman, who claimed to be her husband's friend, to help her find the rag doll.
Their purpose was very clear, that is, to quietly retrieve the rag doll, but to no avail.
The suspense point of the third story continues to heat up. It turned out that the rag doll had been taken away by the Gloria girl from the neighbor's house who often came to help Susie go shopping. At this time, she sent the doll back. Drug traffickers and two innocent people who did not know at first began to fight. The involvement of an unsuspecting blind girl and a daring, adventurous girl, engaged in an unequal battle with criminals, makes the film seem to lose the balance of power between the opposing sides. As a result, the audience wants to experience a terrifying purgatory with the blind girl, waiting for the suspense points to be revealed one by one in the thrilling excitement.
The first suspense: how does a blind woman recognize the real danger she is in? The audience sees clearly with the loopholes of the criminal gang set by the director, but the blind girl can only rely on the familiarity with the home environment, the sensitivity to the voice, and the information obtained from the communication with the neighbor girl in a limited time, iq online inference, step by step to figure out her own dilemma.
The second suspense: is the blind woman a good liar? The answer, of course, is good to cheat, because she can't see it, at least in the first half of the movie, there are still many elements of deception. She believed the so-called husband's friend. At the same time, she is not easy to deceive, because she is blind, has an amazing sense of hearing, and can judge the abnormal behavior of Carino and Lot, until Gloria tells Susie through the surveillance phone booth and through the telephone code that her husband's friend Taman is in the same group as the police and Mr. Roth, and she is really no longer deceived. However, at this time, she was firmly locked in the room, and without superhuman wisdom, she could only be slaughtered.
The third suspense: how can an isolated blind woman use her wisdom to fight back? The director puts herself in the blind woman's shoes with a series of conditions and means that can play to her strengths. Susie first tricked Taman into having the doll in her husband's studio, but the criminals didn't give her a chance to get the doll and cut the phone line. Susie uses the break between criminals to fetch the doll, and asks Gloria to go out to deliver a letter to her husband, telling her husband about her danger, and she has failed to call the police. Finally, she smashed all the electric lights in the room, in order to give full play to her advantages of invisible and familiar environment, so that she could have a certain psychological balance and advantage when dealing with criminals. She poured the fixer used in her husband's photography into a flower pot for backup, and she calmed down in the face of the criminals.
The fourth story climaxes, where Susie finally defeats the sinful Lot. Taman and Carlino plan to kill Lot in vain, but are killed by Lot. Lot found gasoline and poured it in the room, using this as a threat to force Susie to hand over the rag doll. Susie first splashed a fixer on Roth, then spilled gasoline on the room, then broke the last lamp in the room, threatened Roth to hand over matches and knives, and took the initiative. However, the room has been locked by Lot, and what she could not escape is that the power supply of the refrigerator was not unplugged, the refrigerator door opened to emit a bright light, so that Roth had the initiative again, and Susie was helpless and handed the doll to Lot. Lott takes the drugs out of the doll and threatens Susie to go to the bedroom, where Susie stabs Lott in the abdomen with a knife she has prepared in advance. Lott didn't die, pulled out his knife, and crawled toward Susie, who unplugged the refrigerator's power cord at a critical moment, dodging Lot's last madness.
At this time, the husband received a letter from Gloria and came with the police. They saw Susie hidden behind the refrigerator door.
This film does not see the end, I really do not know how the blind girl won.
The film is a one-man show in a way. Red Flower, of course, is the blind girl played by Hepburn, and the rest of the people are the characters of Green Leaf, who together set the stage for Hepburn and gave her a full opportunity to perform. Hepburn also lived up to expectations, playing a blind girl vividly. Especially after learning that the telephone line has been cut, she falls into a desperate scene: first shouting, then constricting her face in pain, her nose hitting the railing, turning around and almost falling down a series of language and body movements, living and escaping is a blind person, without a sense of violation.
In the whole film, in addition to the charm of the appearance, Hepburn is still more by personal excellence, so that people feel that she is the blind woman, a beautiful blind woman, a blind woman full of wisdom, a blind woman with a strong heart, just in response to what she said to her husband: I am the most powerful blind woman in the world.
Only those who have experienced the tribulations of life will burst out of wisdom and strength at the most critical moment and dissolve themselves from the upside down.