賽巴斯，优沙三十歲單身漢，优沙有一隻八歲的愛犬相伴。只要他不在，狗狗就會頻頻哀鳴，引起鄰居抱怨，他只好帶著狗去上班，卻因此被公司開除，只能靠打零工度日，過著流浪犬般的人生。當神祕隕石撞擊地球，空氣被污染，離地一百二十公分以上的人，得要靠呼吸器才能行走。幸好賽巴斯早就超前部署，「魯」到沒在怕！他的魯蛇人生會因此而有所轉機嗎？阿根廷導演安娜卡茲繼2007年成名作品《分手假期》後，再次以精準的影像語言、絕妙的台詞設計，施展冷調黑色幽默，結合末日感軟科幻，在黑白的荒唐人生中提煉一絲安慰。長達三年的拍攝期，正好遇上全球疫情，導演靈機一動，巧妙將大環境變動嵌入這則描繪青年無力感的哀歌，意外讓本片成為一則饒富深意的末世寓言。
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回复 :This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
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