we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death
...
the skyline was beautiful on fire
all twisted metal stretching upwards
everything washed in a thin orange haze
...
i said, "kiss me, you're beautiful -
these are truly the last days"
...
you grabbed my hand
and we fell into it
like a daydream
or a fever
very much feels like mann's 21st century update to Thief, a film with a similar…
Revisiting David Cronenberg’s The Fly for the first time in several years, it wasn’t surprising to me why the film has endured as his most popular work for many horror fans today. From an incredible revision of the classic monster movie formula, to Cronenberg’s unpretentious craftsmanship and potent eye for tangible bodily destruction, to a wide variety of thematic undertones (ranging from an almost tongue-in-cheek meta-commentary on Cronenberg’s artistic obsessions to a very tragic allegory for the AIDS crisis), The…
There's a moment in Taxi Driver when Travis Bickle is balancing his TV set with his foot. There's a light tension in the air as it oscillates back and forth between the force of his foot and gravity. Ultimately it falls over, and its assured destruction is perhaps the film's most obvious parallel to Travis's own downward spiral. Teetering on the edge in his own mental illness and isolation, Travis is very much that TV set.
