Basic Instinct

I was watching Basic Instinct and found the end result, how everything seems to implicate the psychiatrist, quite haunting, and was amused at how Verhoeven wonderfully evoked the spirit of Hitchcock in revealing a small detail regarding a broken lock and how Douglas' detective tells the apartment's occupant that she should get it fixed. It was certainly sound advice..advice that would forever scar her reputation. I was listening to Verhoeven talk about how Vertigo was of certain inspiration and I could see that throughout..the way he shoots San Francisco and the way Goldsmith's score mimicks Herrmann. Several thoughts were going through my mind as I watched it. How gullible Douglas becomes and how he would be ensnared, doubting the person he was at one point linked(Jeanine Tripplehorn)in favor of Stone's devious, clever, seductive author. Verhoeven mentioned that the film emphasizes Catherine Trammell's control, how she is able to secure fresh subjects for her new novels, by manipulatively capturing their heart, soul, and body until she has no further use for them. I was kind of entertained by just how Trammell plays the detective like a fiddle, plucking his strings, with him producing the exact sound she so desires. After having not watched this movie in a while, I must say that the celebrated graphic sex scenes which earned Basic Instinct it's notoriety sure were an eye-opener to me..I had forgotten how boundery-pushing the passionate love making between Douglas and Stone were. The movie sure hasn't lost any of it's edge, Basic Instinct, I believe, would make an ideal pairing with De Palma's Dressed to Kill, the way a blonde psycho wails on male victims with the ice pick..sadistic in how the stabs are delivered with such menace and thrust.