Some call it piracy, I call it file sharing. And if it wasn't for file sharing I wouldn't be able to find that mesmerizing film by the great Mario Bava. Danger: Diabolik was the first film from the Italian filmmaker that I saw. And it stays 100% true that I was really taken by huge surprise. I was never a fan of Italian cinema meaning Fellini, Visconti and all the others. When I saw this film I changed my mind completely and I understood that I was watching the wrong films and searching the wrong directors. Danger: Diabolik is a movie that you can drink as a refreshing shot after a cold beer. The visuals of the movie are to say the least spectacular and if you think about when was the film shot, they are quite unbelievable.
The movie has an aroma and an aura that have miraculous class written all over them. This is the typical movie to say "it's not what it pictures but how." The only time that I saw the movie (yes I've been always planning to watch it again and always something happens and I don't) I felt that if superhero movies of today were shot with the same "hunger", passion and craziness as this one here we would be talking about heaven and not the crap that we are been served. Danger: Diabolik has without the slightest doubt the ultimate style. A style that goes beyond the phrase "nicely shot movie" and goes closer to the word "brilliant." If you think about a handsome man walking in the street with his classy fedora hat and his shinny spectator shoes and you realize that it's his energy that makes him handsome and not the way nature made him, you then think about Danger: Diabolik. In this movie the beauty derives from the frame, from the direction, from the production design, from the objects, the style, the hair, the costumes, the goddamn spirit of that movie that really and totally thrives here. If I was a thief in my life or wanted to be one, I would definitely have that film for a guide and a holy book.
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