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A classic to be viewed perhaps once every ten years. Due to its somewhat convoluted, at times even incommunicable plot, it will always promise new layers of interpretation. Another such film that comes to mind is obviously Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - after seeing it at least fifteen times I still haven't gotten to the bottom of it all. I am always surprised by it, discover a new hidden passage, a different shade of meaning or lack of it. Ditto with Roeg. In TMWFTE there are some shots, some moments in the story, some twists and turns that seem as if one has not seen them before. And even though, intellectually, they are all memorized and categorized - emotionally they manage to touch a slightly changed angle & offer a fresher key to already familiar. David Bowie is a splendid choice for Roeg's hermetic Sci-Fi hero and 25-years later this film is as refreshing and thought-provoking as when it was first released. American cinema was, I believe, at its best and highest precisely in the seemingly boring decade of the 70's: half disco and half punk how could it have been any different! Since then things have only gotten worse. Way worse.
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