Ranieri Art Gallery

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The Gallery as a Graveyard Throughout the film, the use of space is repeatedly utilized to generate a sense of anxiety and to restrict the agency of individuals trapped in locations dominated by art—the queer man’s antique shop, Sam’s loft-studio, and most notably, the Ranieri’s Art Gallery. In each of these locations, the film develops scenes where there is the sense of being hunted, confined, and powerless. While the scene in the antique shop speaks to anxieties over the queer in society, and the attack on Giulia in their loft addresses issues of female agency—it is the confrontations within the Ranieri’s art gallery which best articulate the crossroads of art, violence, gender, sexuality, and power explored by the film. It is here that the “imagery of [the] galley sequence disorients the viewer, setting up one set of expectations and then subverting them in a manner both unsettling and memorable” (McDonagh 49). In the space of the gallery, our perceptions about the agency of the protagonist and the gender of violence are disrupted and confused. …show more content…

At the start of the film, Sam is drawn into the gallery through a spectacle of violence which draws his attention. He rushes to help the injured Monica, who by her nature as a woman is automatically and unquestionably conceived as the victim. However, becomes trapped by two glass doors. By virtue of his entrapment, Sam is rendered mute and cripple, forced to watch helplessly as Monica bleeds out on the floor in front of him and unable to call for help. The Gallery becomes a museum of violence, where Sam can only gawk uselessly at Monica’s bloody, brutalized body while his own body remains trapped by a cage of

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