Doomsday Machine challenges the conventional stylistic and narrative conventions of the typical Hollywood production and is ultimately an artistic triumph of sublime, subversive and often subtle experimental filmmaking.
For example, the hypocrisy of continuity in mainstream movies is relentlessly exposed as a cliched contrivance. The lack of continuity in Doomsday Machine forces a more dynamic and less passive cinematic experience. Having been conditioned and indoctrinated by consistent continuity, bourgeois audiences will undoubtedly feel liberated by the haphazard continuity so brilliantly deployed in the movie.
The conclusion of Doomsday Machine also mocks the often obvious and stereotypical endings of most Hollywood productions. Do endings really need to be coherent and make sense? After all, life is often confusing and vague, so why shouldn't movies be that way too?
My main takeaway from Doomsday Machine was this: If I'm going to be lost in space, it might as well be with Ruta Lee.
For example, the hypocrisy of continuity in mainstream movies is relentlessly exposed as a cliched contrivance. The lack of continuity in Doomsday Machine forces a more dynamic and less passive cinematic experience. Having been conditioned and indoctrinated by consistent continuity, bourgeois audiences will undoubtedly feel liberated by the haphazard continuity so brilliantly deployed in the movie.
The conclusion of Doomsday Machine also mocks the often obvious and stereotypical endings of most Hollywood productions. Do endings really need to be coherent and make sense? After all, life is often confusing and vague, so why shouldn't movies be that way too?
My main takeaway from Doomsday Machine was this: If I'm going to be lost in space, it might as well be with Ruta Lee.