David Cronenberg essentially has always made a variation of his earliest films over and over again - except as he went along he got bigger production budgets and better actors........at his earliest he was addressing very complex things, that were hard to express with the resources he lacked:
Government control of the self (or, um, the Democratic Party in the Biden era - what, not funny?), corporate control of the self also - of the mind , the mind's control of the body or lack thereof............the seductive naure of the film image and the human desire to manipulate images.....sexuality turned inward.........gender toward inward too....
What separates The Fly from all his films - it is the first one...maybe the only one tbh to show compassion....when Davis holds Goldblum it is in the way you might hold an AIDS patient or a cancer patient, a family member .......
Videodrome is more in line with everything else he's done, which is of course, awesome usually too......pfffft
Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 23, 2024 21:51:14 GMT
Both are top 3 Cronenberg (along with Dead Ringers, his best), but I give the slight edge to The Fly. I love how darkly funny it is, plus it's sort of poignant as a sad, doomed love story, so I like how it works as a tragedy that's partly about the hubris of science. Videodrome doesn't really have that emotional dimension and is more cerebral, but I love it for how eerily prescient it is in its ideas.
I want all of you to enjoy your cake, so... enjoy.
