The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
I confess that I hadn't seen The Fly until this past weekend.
I like the Toronto scenes in this. The Zanzibar, the Kensington Market, and 80s style Co-Op cabs.
Cronenberg's themes are easy to pick out once you watch a few of his films. Not just the "body horror" but the video taping and the claustrophobic world in which there are only a handful of characters. There's an eeriness just to the banal moments. They street. The rusty cars. The offices. They're weirdly empty or unnatural to me. Or maybe I just wonder how a world I recognize will in just a few moments be exploding with flayed, putrified flesh?
I like the Toronto scenes in this. The Zanzibar, the Kensington Market, and 80s style Co-Op cabs.
Cronenberg's themes are easy to pick out once you watch a few of his films. Not just the "body horror" but the video taping and the claustrophobic world in which there are only a handful of characters. There's an eeriness just to the banal moments. They street. The rusty cars. The offices. They're weirdly empty or unnatural to me. Or maybe I just wonder how a world I recognize will in just a few moments be exploding with flayed, putrified flesh?