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‘Basic Instinct’ opens with the murder of the retired rock star Johnny Bozby by a
mysterious blonde woman with an ice pick. Troubled detective Nick Curran and
his partner Gus Moran are involved in the subsequent investigation. One of their
prime suspects is Johnny’s partner Catherine Tramell, who writes crime novels
under the penname, Catherine Woolf.

The detectives discover that she has previously written a book in which an
erstwhile rock star dies exactly like Johnny, but they know that they can’t arrest
her just because of it. As Nick says to Catherine, “Writing a book about it gives
you an alibi for not killing him.”

Nick finds out that Katherine is basing her next protagonist on him. They begin a
torrid affair, all the while he continues to suspect her for Johnny’s murder.
However, as the film progresses, he doubts her guilt and starts developing genuine
feelings for Catherine. His rapid descent is noted by Gus and Beth, both of whom
caution him against Catherine’s manipulation.

Catherine Tramell is the femme fatale, the ultimate black widow. Although the
film maintains a flicker of ambiguity at the end and doesn’t exclusively declare her
as the murderer, it’s the only logical conclusion, especially because of the scene
with the ice pick under her bed as the closing shot. Katherine’s life has been
shaped by a constant need for thrill and her natural ability to manipulate people. It
is heavily hinted that she caused her parents’ death and death of other people not
only because of the inheritance but also because she simply wanted to see if she
could successfully evade suspicion and arrest afterward. At the end we discover
that she indeed was the killer of Jonny but she was so smart that she managed to
blame it all on Beth, her former girlfriend. All this was because when she was in a
relationship with Beth during her college days, Beth left her believing Catherine
was psycho. All this was for the same revenge, and Nick and the cops ended up
being the fools. 

But during this interrogation interrogation, she realizes her intentions to gain trust
and sympathy, to make the detectives change their minds about her involvement in
the murder, so I believe that the manipulation is at the level of the speech genre. In
the full version of this interrogation scene, she asks very provocative questions to
the men about their intimate life, confusing them, and therefore we can trace the
strategy of "veiling", as metacommunication plays a dual role here: on the one
hand, the metacommunicative situation of the interrogation is marked for others,
i.e. the main one or the one that is presented in the foreground, because no one
suspects the existence of a manipulative background here. On the other hand, for
the manipulator, metacommunication is actually a distraction, as it is focused on
the implementation of manipulative intentions. At the same time, in the
manipulative context, we observe certain type of application of this strategy - its
the purposeful use of certain taboo themes and acting seductive for "averting the
eyes", i.e. to avoid continuing and deepening the conversation, but at the same time
adhering to the principles of politeness.

The tactic of illusion or "averting the eyes" is implemented through the deliberate
use of very spontaneous provocative questions that cause shock and
embarrassment to the participants of this conversation. Such a spontaneous
manipulative strategy occurs under the influence of the moment, intuitively, which
does not allow the other speaker to plan his actions/responses in advance.

Her gestures, peculiarities of voice and speech, eye movements and facial
expressions that accompany this lie also do not betray her, because usually people
who have done something bad are nervous, insecure and she is aware of this and
uses it against the cops themselves.

She implements some anchoring phrases as well.

NICK
But you said you liked men to use
their hands.

CATHERINE
No. I said I liked Johnny to use
his hands.
Here she lied, because previously her line was: I like hands and fingers, not
mentioning Jonny at all, but all the detectives are fooled by her assurence, and with
this phrase she manages to make them question even their memory and hearing
abilities.

Later she says:

I'd have to be pretty stupid to

write a book about a killing and
then kill him the way I described
in my book. I'd be announcing myself
as the killer. I'm not stupid.
By using logical reasoning and the last phrase about her not being stupid she
susscessfully spread hesitation in the room about the her involvement.