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- Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
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- From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:36:33 NZST
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- Felipe_Soto@qms1.life.uiuc.edu writes:
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- > horrible nightmares. After I saw the movie I slept like a baby. I think that
- > horror out of context is worse than than in context because your mind doesn't
- > know how to defend itself. It has no background, doesn't know the weakneses o
- > and therfore doesn't know how, to destroy the monster.
- >
- > Any comments on this Idea?
- >
- I can relate to that. I was watching a TV documentary about horror
- movies - most I had seen, but they showed an extract from The Fly (1957
- I think), where the scientist steps out of the teleport booth after his
- wife gets him to try to reverse the process one more time.
-
- She then sees him for the very first time, and we see HER through the
- multi-faceted view of a flys eye [which ISN'T how a fly sees thw world,
- but perhaps the bit that puts together a whole image was still in the
- fly, which would make it very confusing for the fly ;-)].
-
- I found this very disturbing, until I finally saw the movie and had the
- conflict resolved. [using conflict in a more psychological sense, OF
- COURSE].
-
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- Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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