In A Glass Cage

IN A GLASS CAGE holds a mirror to humanity and sees only ugliness reflected there. With an aura of brutality that is reminiscent of early Luis Bunuel and late Pier Paolo Pasolini, it is a truly disturbing film. As it opens, Meisner, a Nazi doctor living in Spain, can't shake off the lust for sick thrills he was free to indulge during WW II. In the opening scene, Meisner sates his bloodlust years after the war is over by torturing and clubbing to death a village youth in an abandoned basement. Dazed after the crime, he climbs to the roof and crashes to the pavement below. When we next see him, he's confined to an iron lung, infantalized in a glass cage. Worn out by ...