Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Elio Petri)

Our guy slashes his girl’s throat during sex Gone Girl-style, but she’s too respectable to bleed more than an ounce or so. The flipside to Police Python, which also starts with a police chief killing his girl, this chief explains his moral power-play games to himself on tape, then manipulates the murder investigation away from himself, then toward himself, with no apparent difference in results. “We must know everything, control everything,” he rants, “Repression is our vaccine,” he exclaims. Movie gets more slippery and subjective, and is quite watchable despite our protagonist, but most importantly it’s got one of Morricone’s glorious soundtracks, a nice repeating theme full of boioioing noises. This is also how I solve crimes: