रेगिस्तान की चींटियाँ अचानक एक सामूहिक बुद्धिमत्ता का निर्माण करती हैं और निवासियों से युद्ध शुरु कर देती हैं. चींटियों को नष्ट करना यह दो वैज्ञानिकों और एक भटकी हुई लड़की पर निर्भर करता है ... सभी पढ़ेंरेगिस्तान की चींटियाँ अचानक एक सामूहिक बुद्धिमत्ता का निर्माण करती हैं और निवासियों से युद्ध शुरु कर देती हैं. चींटियों को नष्ट करना यह दो वैज्ञानिकों और एक भटकी हुई लड़की पर निर्भर करता है जिन्हें उन्होंने चींटियों से बचाया है.रेगिस्तान की चींटियाँ अचानक एक सामूहिक बुद्धिमत्ता का निर्माण करती हैं और निवासियों से युद्ध शुरु कर देती हैं. चींटियों को नष्ट करना यह दो वैज्ञानिकों और एक भटकी हुई लड़की पर निर्भर करता है जिन्हें उन्होंने चींटियों से बचाया है.
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फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
The story is fairly simple: some undefined cosmic event occurs and augments ant evolution. This particular desert colony ascends to an intelligent collective consciousness making the ants capable of communication and great terror. The colony, per its aggressive expansion, drives out the local human population. A scientific lab is established with our main scientist protagonists. The proceedings eventually lead to a division between the two scientists and some inevitable chaos.
The brilliance of this film is the visual component. The cinematography by Dick Bush (not kidding) is in line with the best of the 70s. Furthermore, there are also a lot of interestingly beautiful shots of the colony and ant behavior. Straight away at the start of the film we are presented some truly striking images of the ant intelligence movement for several minutes – no dialog, no humans, just cinematic language.
In short one could say, If you're the type of person annoyed by a Space Odyssey or even Blade Runner, then you're the type of person that shouldn't watch Phase IV. However, if you're a total film buff and/or sci-fi nerd I highly recommend you seek out this hard to find, underrated, masterpiece – you will not regret it.
Review from Beguiled: http://brianbeguiled.blogspot.com/
I had the good fortune to watch this on a really large flat screen TV, and the amazing insect photography (major kudos to the editor who managed to integrate it so completely into the story!) and dissonant synthesizer laden sound track come through nicely with good viewing equipment - they add the proper utterly alien and inhuman feel to the movie and turn something pretty good into something really creep and spooky.
Although the characters are admittedly pretty flat, that's undoubtedly on purpose. "Phase IV" is all about the subjection of the human characters to the overwhelming power of a hive mind where "personality" is besides the point. Even so, Nigel Davenport brings the good stuff to his role as the biologist trying to contain the ants, and you both know everything you need to know and everything you'll ever know about in the first five minutes...without ever knowing him at all.
An ambiguous and otherworldly/mystical ending might not sit well with a lot of viewers who like their science fiction movies to wrap things up by the end. And, OK, the goofy little montage at the end with the mathematician and the gamin doesn't really match the quality of the hallucinatory insect footage that preceded it.
Still, Saul Bass knew how to present an otherworldly, truly alien experience, but he was probably just too far ahead of his time.
A classic of sorts.
Weird(to say the least)film is nonetheless quite original and intelligent; seems to be partially inspired by "2001: A Space Odyssey", and though not a masterpiece, still contains some quite striking visual imagination and ambition(courtesy of director Saul Bass) and a mind-bending ending that gives much to ponder. A thought-provoking Sci-Fi film that deserves to be better known.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाAccording to actor Michael Murphy, director Saul Bass was very worried about British actress Lynne Frederick being able to sound suitably American for the film, since her character was supposed to be from Arizona. Bass made her run her lines over and over while he listened for any hint of a British accent.
- गूफ़The ant-queens seen are actually a species of wasps. This choice has been most probably made as to not seriously disturb several ant-states. However, ant-queens shed their wings when going into pregnancy and developing the huge white abdomen.
- भाव
Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs: You did your major work applying game theory to the language of killer whales.
James R. Lesko: Well, it seemed cheaper than applying it to roulette
Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs: Did you actually *succeed* in making positive contact with the whales?
James R. Lesko: Only with the emotionally disturbed.
Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs: How were you able to determine that?
James R. Lesko: We talked!
- क्रेज़ी क्रेडिटThe title is not revealed until the end credits. It is divided into segments "Phase I," Phase II," and "Phase III," and only at the very end when Phase IV is reached is the title ever given.
- इसके अलावा अन्य वर्जनThe French TV release is cut, the close-up on the scientist being devoured by ants is missing.
- कनेक्शनFeatured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Phase IV (1989)
टॉप पसंद
- How long is Phase IV?Alexa द्वारा संचालित
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