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The future kind of sucks. (430 movies items)"Reason why the future sucks: The Company can offer you a new life. Are you interested? Year it takes place: Not too far off distant future."
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My Movie Highlights of the 1960s (+Watchlists)
Anautix' Movie Diary 2021
“Indubitably the most prophetic cinematic vision of John Frankenheimer's notable period as a Hollywood director, "Seconds" is the culmination of his preoccupation with contemporary thought and political situation. Disregarded at the time of its release in 1966, the film's formidable, unflinching exploration of the murky, salacious recesses of the swinging sixties, psychedelia subculture and wish fulfilment was perhaps too vicious and scathing in its attack. Subversive and single-minded in its pessimistic view of the 1960s, "Seconds" takes aim at McCarthyism, industrial and military expansion, but most of all, technological advancement in all its uncontrollable superiority and underestimated immensity. Such explicit conspiratorial and science fiction elements take centre stage as the plot p” read more
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Slant's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (100 movies items)"A beautiful x-ray of middle-aged existential crisis, Seconds is a dark science-fiction fable of a man assuming a new identity via regenerative surgery and obliteration of his old life, performed by the ominously shadowy Company. While ostensibly a thriller, albeit one pulling fewer overtly political strings than Frankenheimer’s The Train or Seven Days in May, here the suspense is muted in favor of an almost suffocating aura of despair, and the central everyman changeling is defined by his sile"
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1960's) (153 movies items)" Notes: I haven't seen this one yet..."
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2020) (1001 movies items)" Notes: I haven't seen this one yet..."
