(If you want this to make sense, be sure to read the previous post first.)
I just watched X: The man with the X-ray eyes. It screens very differently from what I was expecting. It reminds me a lot of the original version of The Fly. A scientist goes too far in his quest for knowledge--with tragic results! Very modernist. The second half of the film with Don Rickles looks and feels like a Twilight Zone episode with its sinister carnies and doctor-on-the-lam-turned-faith healer. Also, I guess I was expecting something that looked like Wasp Woman. Black and White. Stark. But this was a color widescreen picture with pretty good production values. Some stock footage exteriors. Location interiors and a few appropriately motivated flimsy sets. Just some clumsy direction here and there and a clunky, abrupt ending. So all the elements that I was responding to in the film synopsis were left unexplored, buried beneath the surface. These unexplored ideas might make a good idea for a project: someone who could see things from all angles simultaneously in true, objective, Google-like, God-like vision. Like a Hockney photomontage in time. Where X ends, this would begin. Perhaps beneath the heart of every B-movie lies the soul of an experimental film.
No comments:
Post a Comment