Seconds (1966) - The best film you've probably never seen
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2022
- Seconds tells the story of a middle-aged New York banker who, disillusioned with his life, contacts an agency known as "The Company" which specializes in providing "rebirths" under new identities and appearances altered by plastic surgery.
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i love this movie - it's rock hudson's best performance. a true nightmare of a movie.
It's fantastic. Will Geer playing evil is sublime. Amazing cinematography. Dark. Dark. Dark.
I don't think I've ever seen him in anything else!
He was the kindly Grandpa Walton on the TV series. Very different guy!@@DesDocs
@MaltiPoo23 Yes, that's it. I knew I'd seen him before. Indeed, it's quite a different roll.
I love this film and also consider it one of the best “under the radar” films of all time. I’m glad it gets more attention in hindsight from Criterion, America’s National Film Registry and the 1001 Movies You Must See book series, which is how I discovered it. The cinematography is inventive and truly groundbreaking for its time, it also influenced the look for a movie I was producing at the time I watched it, and the ending is perfectly bleak and hard hitting. Your review is great as well.
Excellent review. Seconds is one of my favorite films. I find it difficult to watch, but the cinematography, plot, and acting captivate me.
Rock Hudson's performance is one of the best I have ever seen
Agreed
Love this movie. Criterion, has a nice version. Thanks.
Wow, I didn't know Criterion had remastered this one. Thanks for the info!
@@DesDocs we watched this last night (my second time). Great print. There are some nice extras including interviews with the lead actress (Salome Jens) and the director's wife. A review by a critic and an interesting monologue by Alec Baldwin, who knew the director well. There is also a commentary by John Frankenheimer. Great disc and easy to find for $20
That's awesome. John Frankenheimer was a great filmmaker. I'm in the UK, so I'm gonna try and find a copy on eBay that's region 2!
@@DesDocs I’m British but based in Oregon. Not sure if this is available over there. Good luck
Really great video, I watched seconds recently and love it. Definitely not talked about or appreciated enough.
Great film from the underrated John Frankenheimer and the incredible cinematographer James Wong Howe.
Rock Hudson’s best acting work in this movie!
Great Movie! I love it was done and Rock Hudson does an excellent job!
So good!
Great review!!!!
Great Review :) This movie seems super interesting!
Thanks mate, I'll watch it tonight
My favorite film you've probably never seen is Stalker 1979, check it out.
A template for time share business . Watched this a few times over the years.
I just heard this movie about a month ago and watched it. Very Twilight Zone like but really good! And I love the cameo by Bernie Sanders 2:14.
The assault is the blackmail to ensure he goes on with it and so vital to the film. Also, it contrasts with an earlier scene with his wife which shows a lack of sex. The whole film has uncomfortable elements!
@@DesDocs Thanks. Understand your thinking. It took me a few watches over the years to get the ending i.e he was to end as a corpse used in another accident. There's also an ending within an ending I later picked up on. He struggles to become Tony Wilson, with flashbacks to his prev life, but the final dream he has is of Tony Wilson on the beach. A reborn! So during the film he is failed to be persuaded it takes time to adjust but as the credits roll the adjustment has come too late. It's a pity when he escaped to visit his now elderly wife he didn't realise he was free then rather than get back in the car with the "organisation". A sinister film and has many levels and one of my favourites.
The man was drugged and the company staged the assault, the lady was an actress hired by the company and it was done this way to show how shady and messed up this company really is. The man was lured into this arrangement with the pretense of meeting an old friend. Nowhere do I really see the company offering him a real choice. He was a mark.
sorry, Mark. I didn't realize that was your name until after I posted it 😳
That's quite OK. I appreciate reading your comments.
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@@markwatkins8309 I thought the ending was him remembering his past life. As he is carrying a child on his shoulder. (I presumed his daughter, who was mentioned) and as the drill goes deeper, the memory of his old life warps into nothingness.
this is so good!! it deserves so much more attention, I'd love to watch this movie now :D, does anyone know where I can watch it??
I watched it on pluto tv
IMHO The rape scene the company stage should have been more shocking not less..The entrapment of Arthur is then complete.. Brilliant film.. Deep thoughtful story telling... Effectively we are all seconds.. Dreaming of other lives we believe more palatable than our present ones...
All of that surgery, New house, financial support and other perks for $30,000? That alone would be suspicious. I know that was worth a lot more back then, but it wouldn't be very profitable for the Company. There must be something more they demand. Like your soul.
Watch this movie..... Where?? Needs posting!
Oh I've seen this just recently by the way. Please watch it and. . . Would you DO IT?. I'm at a place in my life now where I, not only could, I WOULD do it. 💁♂
I didn’t even know Seconds was considered obscure ngl
You'd be surprised
is t here a scene in this movie that involves a man accessing confidential information by tapping his temple to activate a camera ?
No
The way Tony Wilson falls out with his new life unfolds in an unexpected fashion. The whole movie seems quite pessimistic. . The protagonist seemed to have no chance
It is a very pessimistic movie, you're right! He was doomed from the start.
@@DesDocs I just watched the movie yesterday. It was horror that made me feel very uncomfortable with almost nothing graphic. He would have been better off watching Wild Strawberries and hoping for the same grace to befall him
its copied from a TZ episode
@@DesDocs twightlight zone?
you would have to be a really blunt, pedantic person to say nothing more than "it's copied from a twilight zone episode" after watching this movie.