Blog From The Bench

Over the last few days, everyone has been strutting and fretting over Time magazine's 100 Greatest Films of All Time Universal Classics Should Be Seen By Everyone Something or Other List. Among the films most maligned (with some begrudging support, mind you) is David Cronenberg's The Fly. I, for one, think this is Big Dave's masterwork, a combination of all the themes the guy loves to sink his goo-loving teeth into. I mean, it has

- the terror of technology run amuk
- the power of love
- the failings of biology
- the question of identity
- the fallacy of playing God
- the notion of sacrifice and salvation

Remove the abundant gore (absolutely necessary to make his point) and The Fly is just a grand tragic love story gone all goopy. The final shot of Geena Davis amongst the carnage is probably one of the single most emotional images ever in a modern horror film.

So leave Brundlefly and his babe alone - and SOMEONE better get a SE of this bad boy out on the market ASAP, or there will be Gibron Hell to pay (and trust me, that ain't pretty).

And so it goes...

:)

BILL