Men Alienated by their Inventions
Aside from the occasional self-indulgent pretension, this is a startling body-horror movie of some brilliance. It is what the remake of The Fly was and what both Eraserhead, Bad Taste and Videodrome could have been if they had had the courage.
Focusing on the external bodily changes of the characters, it creates a metaphorical world in which Man has become his own machine as his own inventions begin to devour Him and take Him over. This movie also analogizes Westernized materialistic relationships that become mechanical through an obsession with sex.
Here, human beings do not sweat to cool down but to lubricate their moving parts from the outside. Their alienation is exemplified by gross bodily-transformations that border on the ridiculous. But the humor here is decidedly black in this tale of a Frankenstein who is both creator of the monster and the monster itself. The transformations - expressed in terms of ingesting and regurgitating from various bodily orifices - are stylistically reminiscent of the animations of Jan SVANKMAJER.
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