CINEMATIC PROPHETS: FILMS THAT WERE AHEAD OF THEIR TIME Part Two

LOOKER (1981: Dir. Michael Crichton)

Writer-Director Michael Crichton was Hollywood's preeminent science fiction soothsayer. In films such as Westworld (1973), The Terminal Man (1974), and Jurassic Park (1993), he re-visited the Frankenstein premise time and again, admonishing a world increasingly dependent on technology for work and leisure. Looker is his most underrated and forgotten work, a scathing satire on the burgeoning preoccupation with physical perfection, and its applications in the realm of digitally synthetic media. Crichton argues that our daily lives will become an absurd simulacrum of existence, as television and other communication devices become dominated by computer generated replicas of people, places, and things. Some might argue, that this has already come to pass, but it certainly makes for amusingly compelling viewing and stimulating food for thought. DVD REGION 1