Road to Crime seems to precede the camera style of French new wave directors. Many of its scenes are more realistic than the traditional crime film. In fact, this is not a thriller but, given its chamber nature, a true-to-life drama on the devastating impact of crime. The iconic scene played out on scaffolding covering a skyscraper construction site in Sao Paulo remains seared in the memory. These few minutes perfectly reflect the incomparable skills of the Italian Bollini, master of tension building, even when one suspects where things are going to end up. The drag of vertigo is truly apparent in these moments. Like a metaphor.
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