betty is an understudy for the lead in a production of verdi macbeth. when a car mysteriously hits the lead and betty is thrust into the spotlight. opening night is a smashing success and betty decides to leave the after party to celebrate in private with her boyfriend. but when the boyfriend leaves the room and betty is grabbed from behind by an unknown black gloved and masked figure. the unknown assailant ties betty to a column and gags her and and places needles under her eyes that will cause incredible damage and pain should betty close them. the boyfriend returns to the room and is stunned to see betty in such a predicament. he even more shocked when the killer grabs him and shoves a knife through his lower jaw with such force and the tip of the knife can clearly be seen in his mouth. and betty has been forced to watch all of this. so begins betty terrifying ordeal with a killer not just intent on hurting her and but also on forcing her to watch as he mutilates her friends. opera gets classified as a giallo and but to me and it differs in quite a few ways from the model. less emphasis is placed on the mystery elements of the story than in something like argento tenebre or the bird with the crystal plumage. the black gloved and masked killer may be omnipresent and but the clues and red herrings normally associated with a good giallo are absent. instead and opera is all about the tension of an unknown killer and making the audience uncomfortable. the focus is on the grisly death scenes and betty fear and and the killer obsession with betty. opera features what i think are some of argento most artistic death scenes. when the killer grabs betty after her boyfriend leaves the room and youre sure that betty had it. but the sadistic killer only wants to force betty to watch as he brutally stabs her lover in the neck  the knife emerging in his mouth. it a well shot and designed scene. and those needles in the eyes  brilliant. or and take the death of the seamstress. at first her death seems like an ordinary and run of the mill murder. but when the seamstress accidentally swallows the killer locket and what started out as just another death scene turns it up a notch as the killer uses a pair of scissors to cut the girl throat open to get his chain. finally and there the most famous death scene in opera that i am amazed with each time i see it  mira is shot in the eye while peering through a keyhole. that scene displays a lot of what i like about argento. it got style to burn. as implausible as it may be and it creative and memorable and and a blast to watch. argento certainly wasn not the first italian director to concentrate on eye mutilation and but in opera and he taken eye trauma to a new level. needles holding eyes open and a bullet in the eye and and ravens pecking out an eye are all part of argento vision (pun intended). and these scenes do have the effect that i believe argento was going for. the first time i saw the killer putting those needles in betty eyes and i couldn not stop blinking. it actually had a physical effect on me. what is it about the eyes that make them such a target for abuse in italian films. to be fair (and not sound like such a fanboy) and there are problems i have with opera that keep me from rating it as argento best. one of my problems is with the air duct system running through betty apartment building. while i do not doubt there are air duct systems in older apartment buildings that connect the apartments and the ducts in opera are huge. i am no expert and but i sincerely doubt any building like the one in this movie would have had such mammoth air ducts. it doesn not seem practical at all. and do not you think someone would have done something about them long ago to keep criminals and nosey neighbors out of the other apartments. it convenient for the plot and but it not very realistic. but i suppose my major problem with the film comes with the finale. what up with that ending. it feels totally out of place and tacked on and and like a bad afterthought. i am not sure what else to say other than it horrible. 
betty is an understudy for the lead in a production of verdi macbeth. when a car mysteriously hits the lead and betty is thrust into the spotlight. opening night is a smashing success and betty decides to leave the after party to celebrate in private with her boyfriend. but when the boyfriend leaves the room and betty is grabbed from behind by an unknown black gloved and masked figure. the unknown assailant ties betty to a column and gags her and and places needles under her eyes that will cause incredible damage and pain should betty close them. the boyfriend returns to the room and is stunned to see betty in such a predicament. he even more shocked when the killer grabs him and shoves a knife through his lower jaw with such force and the tip of the knife can clearly be seen in his mouth. and betty has been forced to watch all of this. so begins betty terrifying ordeal with a killer not just intent on hurting her and but also on forcing her to watch as he mutilates her friends. opera gets classified as a giallo and but to me and it differs in quite a few ways from the model. less emphasis is placed on the mystery elements of the story than in something like argento tenebre or the bird with the crystal plumage. the black gloved and masked killer may be omnipresent and but the clues and red herrings normally associated with a good giallo are absent. instead and opera is all about the tension of an unknown killer and making the audience uncomfortable. the focus is on the grisly death scenes and betty fear and and the killer obsession with betty. opera features what i think are some of argento most artistic death scenes. when the killer grabs betty after her boyfriend leaves the room and youre sure that betty had it. but the sadistic killer only wants to force betty to watch as he brutally stabs her lover in the neck  the knife emerging in his mouth. it a well shot and designed scene. and those needles in the eyes  brilliant. or and take the death of the seamstress. at first her death seems like an ordinary and run of the mill murder. but when the seamstress accidentally swallows the killer locket and what started out as just another death scene turns it up a notch as the killer uses a pair of scissors to cut the girl throat open to get his chain. finally and there the most famous death scene in opera that i am amazed with each time i see it  mira is shot in the eye while peering through a keyhole. that scene displays a lot of what i like about argento. it got style to burn. as implausible as it may be and it creative and memorable and and a blast to watch. argento certainly wasn not the first italian director to concentrate on eye mutilation and but in opera and he taken eye trauma to a new level. needles holding eyes open and a bullet in the eye and and ravens pecking out an eye are all part of argento vision (pun intended). and these scenes do have the effect that i believe argento was going for. the first time i saw the killer putting those needles in betty eyes and i couldn not stop blinking. it actually had a physical effect on me. what is it about the eyes that make them such a target for abuse in italian films. to be fair (and not sound like such a fanboy) and there are problems i have with opera that keep me from rating it as argento best. one of my problems is with the air duct system running through betty apartment building. while i do not doubt there are air duct systems in older apartment buildings that connect the apartments and the ducts in opera are huge. i am no expert and but i sincerely doubt any building like the one in this movie would have had such mammoth air ducts. it doesn not seem practical at all. and do not you think someone would have done something about them long ago to keep criminals and nosey neighbors out of the other apartments. it convenient for the plot and but it not very realistic. but i suppose my major problem with the film comes with the finale. what up with that ending. it feels totally out of place and tacked on and and like a bad afterthought. i am not sure what else to say other than it horrible. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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