- Also Known As:
- Year:
- 1994
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- Predominant Genre:
- Horror
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Caucasians fantasize that they can both become god and, thereby, evade the travails of everyday life by simple wishful-thinking.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Christianity | Compassion | Destiny | Emotional repression | Loneliness | Personal change | Self-expression | Social class | White culture | White supremacy
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- Review Format:
- DVD
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Suitably-melodramatic telling of the ramblings of teenaged author (Mary Shelley) that refuses to explore the issues it raises.
Despite much talk of moral consequences, these remain dramatically unexplored; leaving the audience with little more than entertaining superficiality and absurdly-overstated production design.
The real nonsense here is the White fantasy that they are able to become gods through their technical and scientific obsessions. Despite the fact that science and religion are often in conflict, White science is merely another means of trying to play god.
Given the oblique references to modern scientific achievements, one would have expected Whites to have been more honest about the limitations of the technology simultaneously being exalted and condemned here. The dearth of empathy Whites have for each other is reflected in a White culture that provides little emotional satisfaction for its adherents because of its belief that the soul has yet to be proven, empirically. This is shown here by characterization that never goes below the surface to have a good rummage in the many dark corners of the White psyche.
As the characters here run from emotional experience by so fearing loss that they crave immortality, so this film attempts to reanimate the dead tissue of a hoary old story whose narcissism is resolutely hidden. A fairly amusing and solipsistic waste of talented performers.
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