figueroafernando Review of 90 Degrees in the Shade

90 Degrees in the Shade (1965)

The sordid fraud for an adulterous love

[9/10 · 20 December 2022]

Sad story that shows moral relativism by compromising work by blindly surrendering to the whims of what I would call an adulterous love on credit. Sensational progressive contrast of the roles, and the bad (the inspector, becomes moral, and the "good" something worse than scoundrels). I couldn´t make this awkward drama out til the B3%44rd Mr Kurka made his point about been a f.....r; I wonder how many there must be, how many of these kind and affable and faithful souls among them (like Mr Bazant, the beautiful Miss Alena Winter covering for Jana and the others for "borrowing" money from the till, but especially covering for her lover Mr Vorel for taking the cocgnas and other bottles of spiritual drinks, etc.) and until the ogre arrives, the supposedly damned auditor or inspector sprout like mosquitoes like a tropical rainy night; Through the painful flashbacks of Alena, the manager in love and in charge of the store, we will penetrate the weakness of the heart and the devastating consequence of a fraud for years by Vorel, using his charms on her, taking money and expensive bottles of heart from the long fraud of several years. On an unforgettable night the couple replaces expensive bottles of whiskey and such but they are adulterated, containing tea and discovered by accident thanks to the chatty Mr. Bazant. The majestic thing about this relatively simple story is, as I already indicated, the transposition of the roles, the solemnity of Mr Kurka who finally re-evaluates his own family life with his son and his complaining wife, while the rascal Vorel not only unfazed by the gas suicide of his lover Alena, but instead returns to his misdeeds with the new store clerk.