Questo e il bacio di Tosca! This is the kiss of Tosca! Mental quote repertoire item number four: a justice quote for any occasion that suits. I do not call this a murder scene as so many do. He has forced her to listen as her lover is tortured in the next room. All three of them- torturer, victim, and Tosca- know he will not give the information on the escaped political prisoner. She might not have given it under torture, either. Torturing him is the evil mans perfect plan to break her. She also knows the next step in his plan is to consummate his destruction of her mind and heart by taking her body in a final coup de grace of utter humiliation. We also know what she does not, that his promise to allow Mario to escape with her is a lie. The firing squad will not use blanks as he said. Part of his pleasure in raping her will be knowing how thoroughly she will feel her defeat when the truth comes to light in the morning. But, bloated on the blood of the innocent he consumes every day, evil wits blunted by the constant blind obedience of his lackeys, he has made a fatal mistake. He has tortured a proud spirit and left the knives out on the dining table. She even stays a moment after he is dead to place the candles and a cross by his body- a thought, a prayer he has not accorded any of his victims. And how perfectly acted the scene is in this clip. Look at the desperate suffering on her face, the look of utter surprise on his face. A tour de force by both. https://youtube/watch?v=nDSOoPxlm_4
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:56:18 +0000
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