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movie review - Spiderhead

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2022.06.22

This is an unpleasant little Sci-Fi number that features a number of inmates at a facility who are serving lengthy sentences. To reduce those sentences, they participate in very difficult medical/chemical trials. It's quite graphic in a number of ways and probably not for all audiences, but I enjoyed the ambiguity and the clear sense of an impending inflection point as the inmates start to succumb.

Recommended. Not for children, not for some teens.

rand()m quote

For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little -- a movie song here or a TV ad there.

—Iggy Pop