Scanners

Scanners is a Canadian Film carried out by David Cronenberg and left in 1980.

Analyzes

It exploits one of the preferred sets of themes of David Cronenberg, the meeting between the medical one and the horrible one. As to accustomed to the Canadian realizer, a strange feeling crosses film. That it is about the sequence " fameuse" head which explodes, or others, more alleviating, Cronenberg remains faithful so that it will renew later in the Fly, or Existenz. I.e. the human body is only one heap of deformed flesh with which it is interesting to have fun, dream and especially to make nightmares. One of the key scenes is that of the museum of contemporary art where works of one of these genetically modified beings are exposed which are the Scanners, true museum of the horrors.

The Scanners in them even are presented like errors of nature, materialized by a drug (Ephemerol) the purpose of which was to alleviate the contractions due to the pregnancies of the American mothers of the years 1950. The drug fails and transforms the fetuses into beings capable of téléphatie and telekinesis. The first generation, the hero, Cameron Vale, and its during malicious, Daryl Revok, are actually the wire of the inventor of the drug, Dr. Paul Ruth. A particularly strange scene is that where Cameron and Kim Obrist (Jennifer O' Neil) go in a doctor who still manages Ephemerol with his patients. Cameron leaves Kim in the waiting room while it leaves to question the doctor. Beside it, an expectant mother reads a newspaper, and Kim with the impression to be made " scanner" by the fetus itself. This last scene, which precedes the final duel between the two monstrous brothers, is revealing interest which carries Cronenberg for what can appear Grotesque in the human nature, i.e. in its design and its gasoline even. The head of the scientist explodes before an assembly of scientists in an amphitheater of very contemporary style. Just as since a simple phone box, Cameron is able to reach the computer of Consec (the company which develops the Scanners) to conceal the name of the doctors there which distribute Ephemerol. The end of the scene ends in the explosion of the room computer and of died of all those which are there. Each time, the film shows that a slightly improved human being if one can say made turn over a whole society based on comfort hypermoderne and consumerist. The elegance of the shopping mall or Cameron is made capture testifies some, just as the buildings of Consec or the office of Daryl Revok at the end. All the sequences of téléphatie do not produce as in Dead Zone, i.e. like a revelation, but like a psychic expulsion of anger, and pleasure. And in the center of the flow chart, one finds the father Patrick McGoohan at the same time father of the two rivals (Cameron & Daryl) but also Faux Demiurge, because person in charge of the deformity of its sons, and thus hates by one of them.

Data sheet

  • Realization and scenario: David Cronenberg
  • Decorations: Carol Spier
  • Photography: Mark Irwin
  • Sound: Gift Cohen
  • Assembly: Ronald Sanders
  • Music: Howard Shore
  • special Effects: Garry Zeller
  • Make-up: Dick Smith
  • Production: International Filmplan Inc., SDICC
  • Turned with Montreal
  • Lasted: 103 minutes
  • Year: 1980

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