The best I can come up with is to suppose that Trelkovsky, whether in his mind or in reality, is always the same as Simone. He crawls away from them back to his apartment, and jumps out the window a second time moments after the police arrive. It turns out that -- but never mind, never mind. According to Clayton's biographer Neil Sinyard, Clayton originally tried to make the film ca. Analysis by a Canadian: Rhett Miller Roman Polanski’s The Tenant presents us with an incredibly nihilistic vision. Although Clayton later insisted that he was never specifically asked if he was still interested, and never said "no" to it, Diller wrongly assumed that Clayton had lost interest and transferred the project to Polanski, without asking Clayton. Der Verfolgungswahn des einzelnen reiht sich ein in die Verfolgungsmentalität einer "wohl" geordneten Welt. [32] The film holds an 88% Certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 32 reviews. He has visions of his neighbors playing football with a human head, finds the toilet covered in hieroglyphs, and looking across the courtyard, sees himself standing at his apartment window, looking into the bathroom with binoculars. He becomes hostile and paranoid in his day-to-day environment (snapping at his friends, slapping a child in a park) and his mental state progressively deteriorates.
She can feel the danger of her neighbours as being much too close to her.) "[26], "In The Tenant, Roman Polanski explores again the psychic terrain of guilt, dread, paranoia, fears of sexual inadequacy and hysteria he made so familiar in Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Macbeth, and Chinatown. He puts on her clothes and makeup, and buys shoes and a wig. ", http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=8166, "Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy Still As Artful As Ever", "Rush Hour 3: Ratner Casts Polanski as Sadistic Cop", https://rogerebert.com/reviews/the-tenant-1976, https://ew.com/article/2012/05/17/cannes-polanski-as-victim-rust-and-bone, http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Tenant-Polanski-1976-BD25-RELEASED/id/16504, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enz6R_Ji0Tg, The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Tenant&oldid=978821377, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 September 2020, at 03:49.
He has been noticing strange goings-on in the shared toilet room: he’ll see one neighbour or another just standing there motionless, doing nothing, as if in a trance, a state of living death. ), but in a way, the absurdity is appropriate, given the silly communication style (i.e., emotional dysregulation) that sufferers of C-PTSD (like me) often have. My!