The Fly (movie)
The Fly by Nick Schwab
"You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep or taste not the plasma spring! You see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration, I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep penetrating dive into the plasma pool!"
The David Cronenberg 1986 remake of The Fly is often cited as an AIDS metaphor, as well as an analysis of terminal illness and mortality. It can also work on a multitude of other levels-- the most obvious is as a splatter horror film, or the type of film designed to make the viewer wretched and feeling dirty from its heavy onslaught of blood-and-guts effects. Despite being viewed as this and only this by a few critics who see only the shock-tactic glee in Jeff Goldblum's transformation from a human to a 185-pound fly, those who look at the film with a more speculative eye may find that the narrative plays both serious and literate. The Fly works best as not only an examination of ageing, but also shows our race's vulnerability to ever changing societal and scientific factors, theorizing that humans are no better evolved than when they were first derived from the apes.
Read the full review at UnRatedMagazine.com
"You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep or taste not the plasma spring! You see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration, I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep penetrating dive into the plasma pool!"
The David Cronenberg 1986 remake of The Fly is often cited as an AIDS metaphor, as well as an analysis of terminal illness and mortality. It can also work on a multitude of other levels-- the most obvious is as a splatter horror film, or the type of film designed to make the viewer wretched and feeling dirty from its heavy onslaught of blood-and-guts effects. Despite being viewed as this and only this by a few critics who see only the shock-tactic glee in Jeff Goldblum's transformation from a human to a 185-pound fly, those who look at the film with a more speculative eye may find that the narrative plays both serious and literate. The Fly works best as not only an examination of ageing, but also shows our race's vulnerability to ever changing societal and scientific factors, theorizing that humans are no better evolved than when they were first derived from the apes.
Read the full review at UnRatedMagazine.com
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