Tenebrae (1982)

Description

The translation of the Italian word TENEBRAE is "darkness", which is an contridiction to the film itself. It's Argento's "brightest" film to date, in a sense that many of the films scenes occur outside, and this is clearly deliberate. The story is set in the near future. The world is inhabited by fewer people. Something in the past has caused this, but probably wants to talk about it. It's almost a futuristic landscapes, where the old, (history in form of architecture and culture), is not visible, except in violent memories. The title TENEBRAE refers more to the dark soul, and twisted mind of the humans, who has become the architecture and culture of this world. The ending couldn't be more blacker, accompanied only by the hard hitting rain, that is a futile attemp to wash away the sins of a world that no longer has any roots in the past.