It took me a bit after this film was over to really understand what it was about. I was confused because it seemed to be just a young girl, who saw the original Frankenstein movie, who has been told by her sister that the monster's spirit lives in a small farmhouse out in the wilderness. I watched the film as if that was all it was about, and I was a bit bored. It wasn't until post-film reflection that I realized it was kind of a PAN'S LABYRINTH film...only this little girl's horrors that she is trying to escape were not war. I realized this when I remembered how her father was filmed with ominous camera angles and she imagined her father as the monster himself. When it all came together in my brain...it was quite haunting.
Just as when I saw THE THING for the first time, I was horrified, grossed out, and totally enamored with David Cronenberg's THE FLY. I loved how the creation of the "Telepods" were taken for granted and that we realize that this genius scientist worked for years and years before we first meet him at the cocktail party in the beginning of the film. Jeff Goldblum's deterioration throughout this film is a marvel of makeup and atmosphere. The various levels of his decay are definitely the things nightmares are formed around. Not only that, but the themes that Cronenberg brings up in this film (jealousy, abortion, journalistic responsibility, empathy) are all poignant and not at all forced. Loved this film!!
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These are Kevin's viewings out of the above Steven Jay Schneider tome Archives
May 2012
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