Dec 11, 2020
Toys Are Not for Children (1972)
"If you have to shout, at least shout something clean! It's Sunday."
"Then this is a perfect day for you to drop dead!"
#Toys Are Not for Children#american cinema#films i done watched#independent film#Stanley H. Brassloff#Macs McAree#Marcia Forbes#Harlan Cary Poe#Evelyn Kingsley#Luis Arroyo#Fran Warren#Peter Lightstone#Tiberia Mitri#N.J. Osrag#Jack Cobb#Ronnie Kahn#Ralph Shaw#Robert Hazelton#Salee Corso#Irene Signoretti#Mark Justin#Cathy Lynn#Hnn. I wasn't going to even make a post for this because I had such a tough time with this film. But that poster slaps so I did anyway#A difficult and often unpleasant film. I wish I could dismiss it as exploitation trash but frustratingly it's.. It's kind of good? I'm not#Making sense but this film is confusing. It's hard to reconcile that such a sordid and unpleasant subject has been treated with quite so#Much subtlety and intelligence (at least for the most part). Forbes' performance is key to what works about this film; she's brilliant in a#Highly challenging role and manages to make her character the embodiment of naive innocence without ever being foolish#Idk this is a dark and seedy film which is actually mostly shot in a very discrete and sensitive way.. But the subject is so sleazy that it#Somehow still feels very gratuitous. Complicated. Oh but the editing! I forgot about the editing. Genuinely brilliant. The real highlight.