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The Fly (1986)
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David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the science fiction classic about a scientist who accidentally swaps body parts with a fly is both smart and terrifying: an allegory for the awful processes of slow death and a monster movie with a tragic spin. Jeff Goldblum gives a masterful performance as a sweet, nerdy scientist whose romance with a writer (Geena Davis) makes him more fully alive. Next thing you know, a tiny oversight in an experiment causes him to transmogrify, gradually, into something more like an insect than a human. This is Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome) country, so expect The Fly to be a gross-out, but in the...
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| The Fly Movie Review by Jarrod (7/5/2007) |
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'The Fly', to me, has always been about more than just a man who becomes a monster after an experiment gone wrong, but a metaphor in general for dealing with the loss of a loved one to disease or something else that may cause him to rot or degenerate physically, psychologically, or emotionally, and ponder whether the...
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