Bigger Than Life (One In A Million) (1956)

Mustanaamio7's Movie Diary 2024 (165 movies items)

"29.3. 2024 "Bigger Than Life" could've been a typical, preachy educational film, but the director Nicholas Ray turns the simple basis into a prophetic, disturbing, and magnificently clever vision. The main character is a school teacher who is diagnosed with a fatal disease. He starts taking a new experimental drug that produces unpredictable and dangerous side-effects. The once carefree man becomes a tyrant, who starts to despise mediocrity of the modern American way of life. He believes that h"

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"Perheenisä (James Mason) flippaa saadessaan kortisoonia. Nicolas Rayn huikea elokuva kertoo siitä, että asioilla on syynsä ja seurauksensa. Tiukan yhteiskuntakritiikin, jolla ei ole tietenkään ollut mitään vaikutusta mihinkään, ohella elokuva on mainio perhehelvetin kuvaus. Varsinkin loppukohtaus on painajaismaisen pelottava. Siinä James Masonin esittämä isä muistaa kaiken. Mutta kaikki on siis enemmän kuin hyvin, halataa isukkia... Olen, muistaakseni, joskus kirjoittanut tästä "

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Mustanaamio7's Movie Diary 2020 (149 movies items)

"20.2. 2020 An ordinary father learns that he is suffering from a rare and deadly condition but he manages to keep himself alive by taking a new drug that hasn't been properly tested yet. However, when the drug causes the man lose his sanity, everyone near him is endangered including his wife and son. Nicholas Ray's progressive and smoothly directed film suffers from a thin plot and predictable ending but the fascinating main dilemma keeps the film balanced."

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" This movie is seriously a masterpiece. Although I do admit I laughed at James Mason's over-the-top acting more than a few times throughout, but it was more like cheering him on because he's a cool guy. This is one of the most crazy and startling portraits of addiction I've ever seen. Mason's character completely snaps after getting hooked on a life-saving drug that is both destroying him mentally yet healing him physically. He verbally and psychologically abuses his wife and son until he go"

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