Um produto típico dos anos 60 psicadélicos, com um argumento delirante e cheio de non-sense e um casting de grandes estrelas em aparições episódicas (Ringo Starr, Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, John Huston...), Candy tem uma banda sonora a condizer. Com temas dos The Byrds e dos Steppenwolf e música original de Dave Grusin (que viria a ser um musico de jazz reputado - dentro do estilo GRP), não chega a ser mais que uma curiosidade e vale mais como produto de época que como preciosidade da sétima arte. Mesmo assim, com os seus momentos psicadélicos interessantes.
Aqui fica a sinopse deste filme de 1968, do realizador Christian Marquand
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A very lengthy opening scene zooms through the galaxy, narrowing in on Earth while showering the planets with psychedelic colors and flaring overexposure. The camera moves over the ocean, across the beach, and finally through the desert to land on a young blonde woman emerging from beneath a white sheet. Apparently it’s all a dream, as naïve and blindly helpful Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin with a noticeable Swedish accent and awkwardness toward acting) awakes in class, being lectured by her father, the teacher. Later, she watches a presentation by acclaimed poet MacPhisto, a drunken actor, who tries to rape her in his limousine. When he’s too inebriated to do anything but fall on the floor, Candy winds up having sex with her father’s landscaper.
She’s sent to New York for her behavior, accompanied by her father, uncle T.M. Christian and his wife Livia (Elsa Martinelli), but en route she’s attacked by the gardener’s sisters (named Lolita, Conchita, and Marquita, wielding brass knuckles, a switchblade and flail) and her father is knocked into a coma. They manage to board a military plane commanded by Brigadier General Smight (Walter Matthau), who trades a blood transfusion for a patriotic stripshow from Candy, which results in the deployment of the army man’s troops and a shaky landing by T.M.’s wife. From there, a pink scrubs-suited brain surgeon is called upon to operate, hilariously splattering blood all over his face as he digs into Candy’s unconscious father with scalpels and bone saws in front of a crowd of onlookers in an amphitheater at the center of a hospital shaped like a brain, where mental patients are dressed identically to the staff. Her father’s brain is eventually connected to an electrical outlet. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg as Candy continues on her bizarre odyssey of strange people and sexual encounters to reach an ethereal void.
