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“I know it's going to be different.”
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Overview
Having achieved the American Dream of job/house/car/family, middle-aged bank executive Arthur Hamilton (Rock Hudson) is tired of life. When an unknown stranger places an address in his hand and his childhood friend Charlie, long thought dead, calls him up out of the blue, Arthur is unsettled but intrigued. The man claiming to be Charlie insists that the cure for ennui can be provided by the mysterious ‘Company’, starting Arthur on a surreal odyssey of surveillance, stolen identities, surgery, and the nightmare of getting what we think we want.
Why You Should See This Film
Seconds is a deeply strange Hollywood film, one that's finally undergoing a revival after decades languishing in obscurity. Audiences were unsure what to make of dream date idol Rock Hudson starring in an existentialist nightmare, and what we now know about Hudson's fraught private life as a closeted gay man lends retrospective poignancy to his portrayal of someone trying to reconcile contradictory self images. Shot with disorienting expressionistic style by DOP James Wong Howe (nominated for an Academy Award), this blend of pulp noir, experimental filmmaking and paranoid thriller was ahead of its time and ripe for rediscovery.
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