| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Reminiscent of a Clockwork Orange, this is a brilliantly-acted work about modern life. A surgical procedure on an educationally sub-normal mental retard makes him super-smart as well as a profound critic of the world he sees around him.
Like the story of adult blind man who regains his sight, he finds that intellect is overrated as it only affords him the possibility to see the problems but not the solutions. Thus, he yearns to be blind again - and it is difficult to fault his reasoning. Like a child suddenly projected into the adult world who finds it lacking in responsibility, ethics nor consistency and finds it better for his sanity to revert to a childlike state. Things as they are equals purposelessness in the culture as a man becomes a living experiment whose purpose is itself but offers nothing of lasting value for the experimentee.
We see the adult Western world as a child with hindsight would see it: Emotional narcissism, psychological solipsism, xenophobia, mental alienation, hedonism, materialism, etc. This is perhaps the ultimate return-to-the-womb fantasy.
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