the night porter
 

all movie guide上的简介：

Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' needs, from cold water to a bed-warming gigolo. Then Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) arrives at the hotel, on the arm of her husband, an American composer, and Max's past comes flooding back to him. It turns out Max was an S.S. officer at a Nazi concentration camp where Lucia was a beautiful young prisoner. She became, in effect, Max's sexual slave. Now, years later, their reunion shatters both of their lives. Lucia stays in Vienna after her husband travels on, in order to see Max, and they find themselves caught up in a renewal of their former sadomasochistic relationship. Max has an upcoming show trial for his war crimes. His former S.S. comrades have been carefully destroying documents and "filing away" witnesses to clear all their names, and, while Max tries to keep Lucia's existence a secret from them, they eventually find out about her. They consider her a threat, and they urge Max to turn her over to them. He quits his job, and he and Lucia hide out in his apartment, while his former friends keep watch. Liliana Cavani (Ripley's Game) co-wrote and directed this controversial film, Il Portiere di notte, which she reportedly based partly on her own interviews with a Holocaust survivor.

― Josh Ralske

女性导演liliana cavani的the night porter是部颠覆性的影片。讲述1957年的维也纳，前纳粹军官max在一家旅馆做门房，兼为客人提供各种服务，包括为老伯爵夫人找男人之类。巧遇曾在集中营里被其调教过的lucia，此时lucia已入美国国籍，为一个作曲家的妻子。两人相遇意外之余，max的“老战友”查到lucia是max犯军事罪的唯一人证，要求解决掉lucia，但不想两人旧情复燃，max把lucia藏在自己的公寓内寻欢作乐。最后，两人在试图离开时被射杀。

如果大家已经看过许多例如：the last tango in paris，感官世界之类的情色电影的话，可能会觉得这部电影并不算怎么特别，相比之下，把the night porter放到那个情景下来看，不可忽略的是影片对纳粹的分析，而不仅仅是max和lucia在情欲中寻求解脱。影片的一些细节：max是个纳粹，种族观点，极端主义者，有虐待倾向，但受过良好的教育，艺术修养非常好，另外，他也是个细心，周到的人，胜任night porter这份工作，很懂得照顾别人。他与其他纳粹的不同点，可能是在于他虽然身为纳粹，但内心是排斥纳粹的，在lucia面前，他显露出了自己的软弱，爱也因此而生。而lucia这边，影片交待的相对少一些，可能是由于在集中营里时，她还是个少女，彼时还未有成熟的自我意识，在集中营的恐怖环境中，max并不能给出什么安全感，但sm的调教在她未成熟的心灵中一定留下了非常深刻的印象。

liliana cavani是个有意思的人，“……意大利的媒体很会提问题，他们问我为什么影片里他们做爱时是女人在上面。我回答这完全是偶然的……”

影片算不上很精彩，但有兴趣的朋友亦可留意。