Last Embrace (1979)
6/10
First half is routine, the second half is clearly DePalma than Hitchcock
4 June 2023
(1979) Last Embrace THRILLER/ MYSTERY

Adapted from the novel by Murray Teigh Bloom that has Harry Hannan (Roy Schneider) attempting to get over his wife's shooting death when some perpetrators were attempting to gun him down while he was having some quiet time with his wife Dorothy at a restaurant, by coming back to the the firm. The next thing we know because of his long absence, the firm that he works for does not want him back anymore. And at that point he begins to get paranoid thoughts once someone tries to push him on front of a train. And upon coming back to his apartment, he then meets an anthropologist student, Ellie Fabian (Janet Margolin) who claims that it's been rented out to her. And before he leaves, he opens one of his letters written in Hebrew Aramiac that marked him as to be selected to die.

The first half of this movie appear to be generic with Harry (Roy Schneider) having paranoid thoughts about is trying to kill him, until he comes across more revelations regarding the current girl he is living with. It went from that before it geared toward Brian De Palma mode from "Sisters" to "Obsession" for there's a psychological aspect.
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