Altered States (1980)
Country: US
Technical: col 102m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
Synopsis:
A research scientist loses his faith in God and tries to find Him in some romanticised notion of essential self, with a bit of help from some native American halucinogens and lashings of pseudo-scientific jargon. He finds his way back to birth, but discovers it to be just as meaningless as death.
Review:
Pure hokum, really, finally recanting its supposed profundities, and presented with the subtlety we have come to expect from the enfant terrible of overstatement: Freud, made concrete! Very glossily and entertainingly presented, all the same, and still his most successful American film, for what that is worth.
Country: US
Technical: col 102m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
Synopsis:
A research scientist loses his faith in God and tries to find Him in some romanticised notion of essential self, with a bit of help from some native American halucinogens and lashings of pseudo-scientific jargon. He finds his way back to birth, but discovers it to be just as meaningless as death.
Review:
Pure hokum, really, finally recanting its supposed profundities, and presented with the subtlety we have come to expect from the enfant terrible of overstatement: Freud, made concrete! Very glossily and entertainingly presented, all the same, and still his most successful American film, for what that is worth.
Country: US
Technical: col 102m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
Synopsis:
A research scientist loses his faith in God and tries to find Him in some romanticised notion of essential self, with a bit of help from some native American halucinogens and lashings of pseudo-scientific jargon. He finds his way back to birth, but discovers it to be just as meaningless as death.
Review:
Pure hokum, really, finally recanting its supposed profundities, and presented with the subtlety we have come to expect from the enfant terrible of overstatement: Freud, made concrete! Very glossily and entertainingly presented, all the same, and still his most successful American film, for what that is worth.