Precious time... a few

At least 2 amongst the personal quotes by director John Frankenheimer  well deserve to be posted here:

"Many of my films concern the individual trying to find himself in society and trying to maintain his individuality in a mechanized world. I do feel that society wants everybody to be exactly the same. It's so much easier. I think the theme of the indomitability of the human spirit is very much there, and the fight against regimentation. When we talk about life my philosophy is that you have to live your life the way it is. You can change it but you can't change who you are or what you've done before. And you have to live with that. I think that point was very well brought out in Seconds (1966), that's what the film is all about."

and: 

"[on Alfred Hitchcock] Any American director who says he hasn't been influenced by him is out of his mind"

By chance, the movie tonight was:

Seconds by J. Frankenheimer (1966)

☻☻☻

a motion picture as old as the blogger, and just like him revealing (once again) its tremendous cinematic power aged 45 years in juniper wood film cans (so as the blogger), built on the POV of an ancient chinese master named James Wong Howe, the bodied and yet fragile music by James "No Less Than" Goldsmith, and the amazingly modern acting by both the protagonists, that is, by Mr. Antiochus "Tony" Wilson before

(John "Emanuel Hirsch Cohen" Randolph)

and after

(well, it's Rock... "Roy Harold Scherer Jr." Hudson)

his secret "rebirth"... Towards his secret death. Warning, some spoiler.

It's a remarkable work of cinema indeed; just in between sci-fi and psychological drama, in a dimension quite close to the real essence of the "human comedy", black and white, slowly scattered piano notes, sensation of deja-vu, jewish brewing

and bacchanal included...

The first time i saw this movie, at first sight, it seemed to be a modern movie set in the 60s; now I know, it was a movie of the future in the 60s, when they possibly produced it;

just like your blogger.

Of course, my judgement remains the same: remarkable. Even if I'd like to say chutzpah, after all.