The Eyes have it.
Science Fiction films rarely address the nature of humanity is the same way that Science Fiction books do, but this is one of those films. The only recent film which attempts this that I can think of would be the Speilberg/Kubrick "AI."
I first saw this film on TV as a child, but it is hauntingly memorable. There is an excellent review of it at IMDB here: http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0057693#comment by Jeffery Talbot. The ending made a huge impression on me.
Ray Milland plays Dr. James Xavier, a world renowned scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He discovers a drug, that when applied to the eyes, enables the user to see beyond the normal realm of our sight (ultraviolet rays etc.) it also gives the user the power to see through objects. Xavier tests this drug on himself, when his funding is cut off. As he continues to test the drug on himself, Xavier begins to see, not only through walls and clothes, but through the very fabric of reality!
Science Fiction films rarely address the nature of humanity is the same way that Science Fiction books do, but this is one of those films. The only recent film which attempts this that I can think of would be the Speilberg/Kubrick "AI."
I first saw this film on TV as a child, but it is hauntingly memorable. There is an excellent review of it at IMDB here: http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0057693#comment by Jeffery Talbot. The ending made a huge impression on me.
Ray Milland plays Dr. James Xavier, a world renowned scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He discovers a drug, that when applied to the eyes, enables the user to see beyond the normal realm of our sight (ultraviolet rays etc.) it also gives the user the power to see through objects. Xavier tests this drug on himself, when his funding is cut off. As he continues to test the drug on himself, Xavier begins to see, not only through walls and clothes, but through the very fabric of reality!
The film's final scene sees Dr. Xavier, with the authorities in hot pursuit, enter the tent of a road-show religious bible meeting and movingly tell the incredulous throng gathered within about what he has witnessed evocatively describing the vision as a "great eye" at the core of the universe which sees and watches us all. He then plucks out his eye-balls at the impassioned urgence of a fanatical evangelist and his congregation.
