Long Live the New Flesh!

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So Steel and I watched "Videodrome" Monday as the first film in the "Modern Cinema for the Disturbed" ExCo I'm taking. I want to have David Cronenberg's deformed, mutant babies. I'm actually really excited about the class, even though I'm annoyed that there's two films by the same director, and the instructor didn't end up using any of my (no doubt brilliant ;) ) suggestions. C'est la vie. But I love how Cronenberg, even when he fails, just tosses out tons of great ideas. I really liked the pacing of Videodrome, and how it kept on winding over itself until you couldn't tell where the movie "reality" ended and the movie fantasy began. It'll be fun to write on. It's some bizarre meditation on the power of/obsession with technology, the passive/active connection of the audience, sexuality, the lure of violence, and....stuff. Holds up pretty well (special effects too!) for a film made in '83. We both want t-shirts now that say "Death to Videodrome." Steel seemed to like it too (if not my turning to her during every bizarre special effect and saying "why didn't we do this in our movie?") so I will try to lure her to some of the other ones. (Now every time I watch something, I think about how the shots were constructed and the lighting and the mise-en-scene, and what we could have done in our movie....)
But anyway. Most of Cronenberg's films are fun, if just to see how his mind works. I can't wait for "History of Violence" to come out on video...