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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • AC-3 • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 25 December, 1980 DVD Release : 01 June, 2004 |
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Altered States description It's easy to understand why the late, great screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky removed his name from the credits of Altered States and substituted the pseudonym Sidney Aaron. After all, Chayefsky was a revered dramatist whose original source novel was intended as a serious exploration of altered consciousness, inspired by the immersion-tank experiment ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Ambitious but hard to watch [2.5 stars] |
| Altered States gets high marks for the acting and its boldness in presenting the subject matter. Anytime hallucinogenic drugs are central to (or even featured in) a film, there is controversy. But the mind-altering substances and procedures in this film were tied to search for meaning, the quest to find one's self that is common to all human groups and cultures.
Though perhaps it no allusion was intended by the author, Prof. Eddie Jessup's (William Hurt) search for the "self" struck me as quite similar to Bernard Marx's (Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) experiences on the reservation. The movie is very cerebral but just not particularly enjoyable. Surely others will disagree, but I found the characters to be rather unpleasant. They are hyper-intellectual, self-absorbed bores. Eddie Jessup, in essence, leaves his wife and young children to go "find himself" through mind-altering experiences. In the end, he finds that he loves his wife. But, the message seems to be that finding one's self is more important that keeping one's committment to others, that your family will be there for you after you've made your journey. That's just not the sort of story in which I find much value or from which I get any entertainment. |
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