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"Oh. Nymphos." Granted: It IS highly unrealistic, but it is also thematically interesting and surprisingly creepy, strange and unnerving. Add to that a broad selection of convincing performances and Fuller's keen eye for details and pacing, and you've got yourself one really good movie.

Depictions of mental illness were ludicrous. The plot is hair-brained at best. The nympho ward was particularly inane. A lot of it is loud, stupid, and highly contrived. Some of the acting performances were awful. The story is bizarre and scrambled. It was kind of funny that it's a B&W but has color daydream sequences. Perhaps the journalist suffered from sleep deprivation? The black KKK guy was way over the top. Much of it was tedious and tiresome, but like a train wreck, you can't look away.

Fuller takes on insanity with a picture full of terrific ideas and quite a bit of humor.

Once I realized just how silly this movie was going to be I settled in and had a blast. The comically absurd depiction of mental illness combined with an indictment of war and bigotry makes for some fantastic scenes and imagery.

Hamfisted and a little silly, yes, but it packs a vigorous punch. As it descends into deeper levels of insanity, Fuller's technique becomes more pronounced. There are a number of fantastic set-pieces, my favorite involving an in-door thunderstorm.

It's a silly movie with over-the-top acting, and yet the strangeness of it all is oddly alluring. The visuals, especially, are very appropriate to madness of the film. The blunt messages of the film are all really forced, but frankly it doesn't hurt the enjoyment that much.

Deliciously vulgar and blunt. A real treat for fans of insanity and the morbid.

The social message is a bit blunt (nationalism, racism, and nuclear arms are mad, I tell you!), and the view of schizophrenia is outdated. Still, it's not badly done for what it is. And it's good to see Philip Ahn in a role that isn't some "sinister Oriental" stereotype.

The film grabs hold of the audience, pauses for effect and booms, "I AM IMPOTENT, AND I LIKE IT!"

I'm no expert, but this seems like a very cartoonish depiction of insanity. Also the way it addresses society's ills is rather ham-fisted. But, you know, it was still okay.

Quite a product of its time: this somehow takes a lot of our fears (politics, race, nuclear war) and crams them into a straightforward story about an overzealous reporter in an insane asylum. There's no question how this will wrap up, so have fun with the B-movie schlock that occasionally borders on great.

I wonder what it was like to watch this upon its initial release? Watching in 2021, I share the sentiment of needing to "choose" to buy into it. Though conceptually, it trades in a straightforward parable for a paranoid political satire that Fuller clearly has fun with. It pushes past clunky exposition and arrives at some imaginatively immersive cinematic moments.

a tad hysterical but a winning romp otherwise. colour sequences add a burst of flavour that'll leave your gums raw for days

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Definitely appreciate the balls of this film, especially back then. It's kind of nuts at times with some fun performances. But despite how interesting some of the characters are and how intriguing some of the interactions are, I had a hard time getting invested in it. Definitely good and original, though.

Was any Hollywood-era director nearly as ambitious as Samuel Fuller? Not unlike his protagonist, Fuller treads the fine line between genius and insanity, taking aim at the American empire, entrenched racism, the Red Scare, and the war machine, all within the walls of a mental hospital. It doesn't entirely work but you have to respect the ambition. Beautifully filmed as well, such sharp B&W and silhouettes everywhere.

"tanrı yok etmek istediği kişinin önce aklını alır" bu cümleyle başlayıp bitiyor. Akıl hastanesinde işlenen bir cinayeti çözüp Pulitzer ödülünü almak isteyen Johnny Barrett, akıl hastası numarası yaparak kendini hastaneye aldırır. Fakat bu arada gittikçe akılını yitirir. Hastanede eşini öldüren ve opera söyleyen bir adam, hala kendini 2ds sanan bir adam, kendisi zenciyken zencilere düşman olmuş bir ku klux klan mensubu adam, ünlü bir bilim adamıyken zekasın

8+

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Fascinating film, even more so today than I suspect it was in 1963. We live in a world of the therapeutic diagnosis now--everyone has something, as people increasingly see themselves as sick or diseased. The film reveals the disturbing ways in which playing a part, adopting a schema of trauma (or whatever else) can lead to devastating, life-altering consequences.

I have no words beyond 'shockingly overrated'.

A good idea with a stupid set up made enthralling by Sam Fuller's direction. The overacting and pretty much non existent plot can't detract from the raw power that is shown on the screen. By far the best Sam Fuller film I've seen.

So... Mental illness is contagious?

This would be an upper tier movie but some of the ideas within the hospital are just too hokey. Ending is kind of interesting tho.

i am impotent, and i like it!

bizarre and really quite absurd picture of psychosis. i came into this film with low expectations due to issues i've had with other fuller films, and while they weren't fully solved, this works on such an unrealistic level that it'd be difficult to make any criticism in that respect. instead it's a subjective feeling of descent into insanity - how fuller might imagine his own descent, i suppose. i have to say i really enjoyed the experience.

Careless jump cuts, an elementary view of mental illness and a so-so story. I don't know why this got it's own Criterion spine instead of Fuller's much better 'The Steel Helmet'

Awful acting and a completely predictable script.

The most powerful statement on journalism ever made -- corridor = street --, but also a masterpiece in its overall madness and flashes of sanity that it feels impossible not to be stunned by it. As Johnny gets disturbed by each one of the three witnesses of a murder -- a former communist who thinks he's at Gettysburg, a black university student in love with the KKK, a physicist who helped to create the atomic bomb --, Fullers writes history through shadows and somber halls, depicting mad times.

Gets better and better as it goes on.

Unbelievably erratic, dark and bizarre, almost experimental. The literal depiction of insanity is certainly inane, but it's made entertaining by a thick coat of pitch-black humor. It feels a little empty by the end, but it's too left-field to ignore.

It's a pretty cool concept, but I found most of it mediocre. Okay, that's probably unfair. It wasn't mediocre. It was made very well. Technically speaking, it was brilliant. I just didn't connect with it. The portrayal of the patients and their mental illnesses was oversimplified, for sure. I really don't have much else to say about it. The ending was great though.

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Nymphos! Watch it! Score is not a grade

The more I think about it the more I like it.

Watchable due to the visuals (blank walls, stark shadows; atmosphere) and the solid pacing, but the depiction of mental illness is very silly, often to the point of bemusement.

watched: 2011, 2013, 2015

Outrageous, sleazy, but still a powerhouse movie by maverick director Fuller. This starkly photographed black-and-white film features agonizing close-ups, a pint-size stripper perched on a pillow case, a black man in a KKK hood screaming racial slurs, color flashbacks unabashedly snipped from movie travelogues, a squad of malevolent "nymphos," and a violent thunderstorm raging in a hospital corridor. Not completely successful, but it sticks in the mind longer than many "perfect" movies.

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Mostly fascinating, though the first person voice-overs seem a little unnecessary and the social commentary is a little too conveniently placed. Peter Breck delivers a pretty good performance.

revisto no dia 16 de setembro de 2023

Didn't grip me one bit. It looked like every actor had never set foot in an asylum at all. Terrible.

This doesn't work on any realistic terms - I'm not sure why this works - it just does. Probably my Fuller fanboy coming out.

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Just bad. The plot is erratic, the morality is shopworn, the depiction of mental illnesses and the text in general are completely unrealistic and much of the acting is terrible (Constance Towers' especially). I really don't see why this is so well liked.

Not too much crapola this time from Fuller (though there is some of it of course). And anyway, it's in an asylum, so that stuff fits right in.

One of the most nightmarish movies ever made that's not technically horror. Thank you again, Mr. Fuller

Score based on distant memory.

Who knew Sam Fuller fucking RULES! Way cool film about a Journalist pretending to be a nutbar to solve a murder. Though all the cast are exellent, Hari Rhodes steals though the show as a black dude convinced he's a white supremacist. Don't just see it, OWN it!