Kenneth is a man constantly immersed in his job as a clerk at a company that makes instruction manuals and unable to form a relationship with a woman. One day he decides to purchase "Nikki," a life-size customizable doll, on the Internet. Thanks to this object Kenneth will feel more fulfilled, but soon a strange and obsessive relationship with Nikki will come about. The situation will precipitate when Kenneth begins to have feelings for Lisa, a colleague of his at work...in his mind the two female figures intermingle, giving rise to a dangerous love triangle.
Robert Parigi directs an interesting thriller with horror veins, an anomalous film with a story centered on delineating the disturbed psychology of the main character, a very good Desmond Harrington (Wrong Turn, Ghost Ship), who leads a monotonous life focused on almost mechanical daily acts.
But within the walls of his apartment, the only thing that seems to make him happy is the fiction of a life he does not possess, and the fetishistic relationship with an inanimate object becomes a source of escapism for him.
Commendable is the way the protagonist's depravity is shown: without vulgarity, but naturally, almost as if it were normal.
Paris' direction is decent but in places slightly flat, while the screenplay, by the director himself, is well constructed. In the cast, in addition to the aforementioned Harrington, Udo Kier stands out as the spying neighbor.
Excellent ending, slightly more splatter and unpredictable.
Recensionde of Lady of sorrow
