Mosca cieca

Robert Urich always made interesting roles. Here he is a blind man since four years, trying to make the best of it, which isn't easy, since disasters tend to happen around him. The first one in the film is a motorcyclist coming roaring through the traffic and plunging headlong into the street, and that's just for an introduction. Who is really killing the people around him, his neighbour the aunt of his former sweetheart, whom he had to give up because of his blindness, who still loves him, while he insists she should marry his best friend instead, Ron Perlman, whom both the audience and the police gradually learn to suspect, but there are others also, above all his therapist, the lovely Patricia Clarkson, and some other victims. Robert Urich makes a perfectly convincing character of the blind man at a constant loss and innocently unaware of all the threats around him, while his only real friend is the dog, which for some reason stays out at the most crucial moment. It's a psychological thriller, as impossible to find your way in as it is for Robert Urich as the blind man, with great sensitivity and beautiful music endowing the film with some refinement - Beethoven's moonlight sonata occurs twice. This is no action thriller but rather a more introvert challenge for intellectuals - Robert Urich is himself a professor here - a film actually for the happy few.