BODY DOUBLE

It's AMAZING!! 
It's really AMAZING this Brian De Palma's masterpiece. Everytime I watch it  seems to me that I can find new meanings, new ways to interpret the movie and the story. 
BODY DOUBLE is absolutely my favorite movie and I consider it a real piece of ART.

Body Double talks about the cinema itself and makes you realize that, during a movie, you cannot never believe your eyes 'cos it's all about fiction and you're never gonna see the truth. 


Body Double is a movie within a movie which is, again, within another movie and each character always plays, at the same time, more than one role according to the perspective you're using to read the movie. 


Jake is one of those frustrated actors of a splatter 80's B movies (the first story) looking for fame and fortune who suffers from claustrophobia who find himself involved in a mysterious situation (which is the second story of the movie). He falls in love with a mysterious woman who strips every night in front of her open window until she's murdered. Jake, who used to watch the girl every night during her private show, is the witness of this murder and tries to solve the crime in which he's been involved.

During his journey he meets Holly Body, a rising star of the Hollywood porn industry.


But at the end of the movie Jake realizes to have played the part of the witness in another one's own story: the story of a friend who was interested in killing his wife and needed an alibi and a witness to prove his innocence, and the girl that Jake used to watch every night at the window was not the real Gloria (the friend's wife) but Holly who was a body double payed to play the part of Gloria and deceive Jake.


The movie is all about crossing the line between fiction and reality and the director is interested in making us realize and be always conscious that what we're always looking at is always fiction (a movie).


This De Palma's inspiring masterpiece, whose plot borrows from two of Hitchcock most famous movie (Vertigo and Rear Window), is really my favorite movie and every time I watch it, it blows my mind.