Nice review. I first saw it as a kid. I see this movie every 5 years or so. I suppose getting older is like shrinking, you eventually disappear and become one with the the universe.
There are many reasons why this film is extremely important. First of all it shows us how the medical profession and others collude to deny reality. The second reason is the way that the ego tells us who we are supposed to be and when we do not like what we see, it's very painful. The third reason is that it teaches us to respect smaller, non human creatures Finally we get the scene at the end where he realises he is just like a molecule in the universe, no more important than any other molecule. It would be great if this film was part of the national curriculum at school and if all politicians and doctors were forced to watch it
There is just something amazing about films that take stuff like this seriously without playing it for jokes. It has been done countless times in cinema in the name of comedy, and the true horror element of actually shrinking is often lost. Great movie!
2 things: the director was under pressure to make the guy grow back tall to have a happy ending, but he refused, saying that then it would just be a movie about a guy fighting a spider, Also, there is NO WAY this guy, a wonder of nature, would be allowed to live at home. He would be constantly studied in a laboratory
The video isn't available on YT but some of Grant William's work is. Grant was a homosexual who died at 53. While the official cause of death is peritonitis, I suspect it was alcoholism. Grant worked his craft (excellently) in an environment/culture where homosexuality was not only unacceptable, but risked arrest. My heart cries for what he must have gone through in his life. I don't know anyone involved in the film or in its production but what a perfect metaphor that film was for what the homosexual adult male must have endured in 1957 - to be wished to be erased from a hateful and fearful society. 1957, the year the film was made and the year I was born.
Nice review. I first saw it as a kid. I see this movie every 5 years or so. I suppose getting older is like shrinking, you eventually disappear and become one with the the universe.
I hadn’t thought of that but you are right. It’s actually an allegory about loss and dying .
There are many reasons why this film is extremely important.
First of all it shows us how the medical profession and others collude to deny reality.
The second reason is the way that the ego tells us who we are supposed to be and when we do not like what we see, it's very painful.
The third reason is that it teaches us to respect smaller, non human creatures
Finally we get the scene at the end where he realises he is just like a molecule in the universe, no more important than any other molecule.
It would be great if this film was part of the national curriculum at school and if all politicians and doctors were forced to watch it
I'd LOVE to see a 'SERIOUS' remake of this!
It was serious at the time
Grant Williams really sells it as the ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
There is just something amazing about films that take stuff like this seriously without playing it for jokes. It has been done countless times in cinema in the name of comedy, and the true horror element of actually shrinking is often lost. Great movie!
I was genuinely horrified at the end. He disappears.
What I find interesting is the the Incredible Shrinking Man's name is Scott, just like Ant-Man. Coincidence?
Yeah, Scott Lang.
Could be
2 things: the director was under pressure to make the guy grow back tall to have a happy ending, but he refused, saying that then it would just be a movie about a guy fighting a spider,
Also, there is NO WAY this guy, a wonder of nature, would be allowed to live at home.
He would be constantly studied in a laboratory
A special favorite of mine. A well-spoken review of it.
The only problem with this is since that radioactive cloud was on Earth, Scott would not have been the only one shrunk by exposure to it.
Thank you 👽🪄✨
The video isn't available on YT but some of Grant William's work is. Grant was a homosexual who died at 53. While the official cause of death is peritonitis, I suspect it was alcoholism. Grant worked his craft (excellently) in an environment/culture where homosexuality was not only unacceptable, but risked arrest. My heart cries for what he must have gone through in his life. I don't know anyone involved in the film or in its production but what a perfect metaphor that film was for what the homosexual adult male must have endured in 1957 - to be wished to be erased from a hateful and fearful society. 1957, the year the film was made and the year I was born.