The one shot that did for me was the ants crawling out of a man's palm.
Rob, next to me: "Hello, Cronenberg!"
I wondered at the time whether the ants themselves were being used by an alien intelligence.
Hah. I hadn't thought of that. I think I find it a more interesting film if they're not, but I agree you can wonder from the opening scenes whether the astronomical event that triggers the development of the ants is just plain old cosmic radiation or something more extraterrestrial.
I'd like to watch Death of a Shadow.
I don't know where to find it for you online! Trailers, yes, all over the place. Maybe if it wins the Oscar, someone will pirate it.
And agreed about "Time Enough At Last"; there's a misanthropy in that episode that makes me queasy.
It's just this big broad "HA HA, IRONY" ending which doesn't say anything profound about either Henry Bemis or his society—I would have found it more thought-provoking if it ended with Meredith's glasses intact and all the books in the world there for his reading and still the slowly setting horror of absolute loneliness rather than just being left alone, which is what's beginning to drive him to suicide before he finds the library; if you want an upsetting twist ending, it's the realization that no one will ever write a new book and there will never be anyone for Bemis to read to. Instead, sorry, God and/or Rod Serling just hates you, and the man with one thing in his life to love is punished for being a nebbish with Coke-bottle glasses. I understand why it's memorable, but I'd still rather have seen an episode I didn't know.
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Rob, next to me: "Hello, Cronenberg!"
I wondered at the time whether the ants themselves were being used by an alien intelligence.
Hah. I hadn't thought of that. I think I find it a more interesting film if they're not, but I agree you can wonder from the opening scenes whether the astronomical event that triggers the development of the ants is just plain old cosmic radiation or something more extraterrestrial.
I'd like to watch Death of a Shadow.
I don't know where to find it for you online! Trailers, yes, all over the place. Maybe if it wins the Oscar, someone will pirate it.
And agreed about "Time Enough At Last"; there's a misanthropy in that episode that makes me queasy.
It's just this big broad "HA HA, IRONY" ending which doesn't say anything profound about either Henry Bemis or his society—I would have found it more thought-provoking if it ended with Meredith's glasses intact and all the books in the world there for his reading and still the slowly setting horror of absolute loneliness rather than just being left alone, which is what's beginning to drive him to suicide before he finds the library; if you want an upsetting twist ending, it's the realization that no one will ever write a new book and there will never be anyone for Bemis to read to. Instead, sorry, God and/or Rod Serling just hates you, and the man with one thing in his life to love is punished for being a nebbish with Coke-bottle glasses. I understand why it's memorable, but I'd still rather have seen an episode I didn't know.