more sober than a typical giallo, since it’s really a police procedural hybrid. stands on its own better as a thriller because of it. sterile off-white hospital rooms, gloomy afternoons, gray police uniforms in place of the usual cascade of red. the music is somewhat more restrained and minimal. depravity is not painted as a ubiquitous evil that oozes from the city’s every orifice; it feels like a force that the protagonists could possibly work to counteract, for once, in…
