| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
[Experiment in Evil;
Doctor’s Horrible Experiment;
Testament of Dr Cordelier]
Jean-Louis BARRAULT is brilliant here while everyone else is either over- or underacting. A crudely-made tv-movie with the same fascinating premise as Shelley’s Frankenstein and Stevenson’s Jekyll & Hyde. Its comic treatment of a child molester brings a whole new dimension to the tired story-line in his being shown as a clown in outsize clothes.
Ultimately, an updated (if rather meandering) attack on science as a panacea to very human, millennial problems (the search for a drug that can cure evil) and the idea that science can replace religion - both without the inevitable political consequences. The scientist here forgets that drugs cannot permanently control free will; while the film propounds what we secretly believe: Civilization is a control-freaks’ veneer covering unresolved emotional hang-ups.
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