CiNEMERCATOR - Jack Arnold THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN 1957
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
nxt edition:
15-10
'The rooms I built in life have become a territory that works against me.'
The Incredible Shrinking Man begins as a small science-fiction premise and ends as a philosophical statement. A man, exposed to a mysterious radioactive mist, begins to shrink. At first the film plays this as domestic horror; clothes no longer fit, his wife looks down on him, the house becomes hostile. But as he continues to shrink, the film shifts from social anxiety to metaphysics. The film is based on Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name. Matheson approached the idea not as pulp but as a study of a man stripped of every layer of social identity; husband, worker, citizen- even visible body- until only consciousness remains. The book is harsher in its psychology and more inward in its voice, but the film preserves the core insight: that the shrinking is not a loss of status but a forced encounter with the fact of existence. Instead of treating the shrinking as a gimmick, the film treats it as a confrontation with scale and meaning. The closer the man moves toward nothingness, the more the world around him becomes vast and indifferent; a cat at becomes a predator, a cellar a landscape, a spider fate...
This film is chosen by Andreas.
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