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I've got the VCR set to start running at 8PM and I'm all set to watch David Soul in Death on the Nile. So, to make it a David Soul day, I popped in one of the movies of his I still haven't watched. Today's selection was Through Naked Eyes. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't stellar either. Let me explain. The plot set-up is like this. A musician (David Soul) living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him. First clue that this man's not gonna be what we call a well-adjusted member of the community. He's all cool with it until one day he finds out that an attractive woman in the opposite building (actually, the other wing of their bulding that's directly across from him) is checking him out, too. He strikes up a relationship with her. While this whirlwind romance of creepy peeping tom meets creepy stalker lady develops (the woman knows what color his mouthwash is), there's a string of murders in their building. And who does the police focus on? Yep, David's character. Which isn't misplaced since he's a very creepy, utterly warped man. My chanting the whole two hours focused on how messed up he was. "He's creepy. He needs to get laid. He needs a hobby. He's weird. He's creepy. He's probably the killer. He's creepy. Okay, she's creepy, too. No, don't have the two creepy people have sex because that's double creepy. He's angry, don't get him angry. Okay, everyone in this building is weird." Add to that I'm critiquing his fluting technique (he's a flutist in the movie) and that's just odd on my part. I have no clue who the woman violinist was, but she kept asking David to come stay at her place and he was not having any of that. But apparently she's a semi-regular date because he has dinner with her and went out with her in the past. And his creepy stalker girlfriend (played by Pam Dawber) has an agent that keeps hitting on her and looks a little like Roy Horn. Seriously, though, everyone in their building needs about ten years of therapy. He's got father issues, the woman's got problems, and the other residents just need to get out more. Here's hoping he's not a creepy psycho in Death on the Nile;) |
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calm.
cheerful.