Max_Renn

David Cronenberg's Videodrome now stands as a "classic horror film", but we shouldn't forget its main dimension. Never before, and never after, a film had described in such a clever way the impact of television over people's mind. In a sense, Videodrome is a prophetic movie : based upon a basic science-fiction concept, it deals with deeper problems, such as illusion and reality, which have never been greater than today. Videodrome is a film about TV, but more than this, a film about the simple fact of watching. In my opinion, one of the most important movies of all times...

Stuck between "Scanners" and "The Brood", "Fast Company" is quite a strange movie among David Cronenberg's filmography. Apparently giving away his ambitious and usual themes, Cronenberg makes a pure entertainment, very close to Burt Reynolds' universe ! So what happened? Cronenberg's attachment to this film leads us to think it could be hiding something deeper. And in fact, one of the main Cronenbergian obsessions is the subject of the film : the car races are a metaphoric expression of "the re-building of the human body by technology". Is the movie any good ? Well, for a Cronenberg fan, it's quite interesting. Others should watch a REAL Burt Reynold movie !