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Ossessione

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Ossessione ("Obsession") is a 1943 film from Italy, directed by Luchino Visconti.Gino Costa, a drifter, wanders into a roadside cafe and gas station. The owner, Giuseppe, doesn't like the look of the scruffy fellow eating his food and throws him out on his ear. But Giuseppe's younger, good-looking wife Giovanna is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger, and by pretending that he didn't pay for his meal, gets her husband to bring Gino back.Soon Gino and Giovanna are engaged in a passionate affair behind the back of clueless, oblivious Giuseppe. Giovanna confides in Gino that she can't stand her boorish husband and only married him because it was either that, or prostitute herself for food. Gino talks Giovanna into running away with him, but she is not interested in the life of a penniless drifter and goes back home before her husband even knew she was gone. Gino and Giovanna still can't give each other up, however, so their thoughts turn to murder.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This was the second adaptation of James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, following Pierre Chenal's The Last Turning but preceding the 1946 adaptation starring Lana Turner.
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 Ambiguous Situation: Did Giovanna know about the insurance policy? Did she rope Gino into a murder plot in order to commit Insurance Fraud? She tells Gino that she didn't, but before his death Giuseppe did mention something about a "paper" that made sure Giovanna would be "taken care of."
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 Dies Wide Open: A more graphic example than Hollywood films of the day, as Giovanna dies with her eyes wide open and with her throat slashed.
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 Downer Ending: Just after Giovanna and Gino have repaired their relationship, they crash the car and she's killed in a car accident, immediately followed by Gino being arrested for murder. In both the novel and the later American film, the wife and her lover get away with murdering the husband, only for the lover to be wrongly convicted of murdering the wife, who dies by accident. In this film however, the cops know Gino didn't kill Giovanna—they were there when the accident happened—but there turn out to be witnesses to Gino killing Giuseppe.
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