braindead
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12:13 AM
by Anonymous
Did you know that movement is an illusion? Some old philosophers say it is because to get from a to b you have to first get half way there. But to get half way there you've first of all got to get half of that distance. But before that there's half of that distance and so on into infinity. As there is an infinite number of distances to cover, it will take an infinite amount of time and thus you will never move. Also 1<0. And all numbers are equal.
And if that makes too much sense you can always go and watch this film. If you like questioning what is real and all that (like say if you read too much Philip K Dick for instance), this should be right up your street. There's not really a great deal of plot to this one other than it being about multiple realities. Brain surgeon operates on some bloke to remove the paranoia from some guy's brain (sounds like a level from Trauma Centre on DS, doesn't it?). He then becomes paranoid and starts waking up in different versions of his reality.
It stars Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton with the latter doing one of the worst performances of his acting career. It looks like it was made in about 1983 but in actual fact it's 1990 vintage. It's also got that Corman name associated with it which will say a lot to any B-movie fan. This film is most definitely in b-movie world. But that's more from the fact that such things don't get made by mainstream cinema.
It takes a bit of time to really get going and start going properly strange but when it does it's pretty engaging. It doesn't really make much sense whilst it does go strange, perhaps due to inept film making or maybe they didn't particularly care. It's full of those disjointed feelings of dreams. Where situations change without warning and for no good reason.
If the ending of the film is to be taken as it appears then it does kind of spoil things by rationalising it all. I'd much prefer genuinely strange things happening for no obvious reason.
Still it's not going to take up much of your time and it's a nice oddity to have some fun with. Not recommended to ardent fans of Big Break.
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And if that makes too much sense you can always go and watch this film. If you like questioning what is real and all that (like say if you read too much Philip K Dick for instance), this should be right up your street. There's not really a great deal of plot to this one other than it being about multiple realities. Brain surgeon operates on some bloke to remove the paranoia from some guy's brain (sounds like a level from Trauma Centre on DS, doesn't it?). He then becomes paranoid and starts waking up in different versions of his reality.
It stars Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton with the latter doing one of the worst performances of his acting career. It looks like it was made in about 1983 but in actual fact it's 1990 vintage. It's also got that Corman name associated with it which will say a lot to any B-movie fan. This film is most definitely in b-movie world. But that's more from the fact that such things don't get made by mainstream cinema.
It takes a bit of time to really get going and start going properly strange but when it does it's pretty engaging. It doesn't really make much sense whilst it does go strange, perhaps due to inept film making or maybe they didn't particularly care. It's full of those disjointed feelings of dreams. Where situations change without warning and for no good reason.
If the ending of the film is to be taken as it appears then it does kind of spoil things by rationalising it all. I'd much prefer genuinely strange things happening for no obvious reason.
Still it's not going to take up much of your time and it's a nice oddity to have some fun with. Not recommended to ardent fans of Big Break.
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