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BOATER

A man and a woman pickup a hitchhiker.

They are headed for a boating overnight and invite the guy along (this is early 60's Poland).

They have the time together. The men posture and perform and play out the timeless bull of the woods antler butting thing.

Things get a little out of hand.

It is Roman Polanski's

Nóz w wodzie / Knife in the Water (1962)

It is his first film and is notable in that it uses the said knife as a source of tension throughout (like the loaded gun in the Jack Nicholson flic the other day) and the cliché hitchhiker who might be a psychopath.

Both invite a number of fantasies about what will happen.

Let me say only that you will be surprised.

Yeh, the boat looks like a knife slicing through the water too. There is a lot of that but it is not heavy handed. Just fun.

It is also interesting in that almost all the action is on the boat. In that respect, the tension is also heightened but, at the same time, you get a reasonable feeling of what a boating overnight is like. The relaxing pull of the wind and the water gliding by is fully captured.

It is quite a film.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.