tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125194422306151768.post2277052266689929932..comments2024-03-16T10:03:59.180-07:00Comments on The Movie Projector: These Are the Damned (1963)R. D. Finchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045080274131718843noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125194422306151768.post-49550242178762562142012-08-29T16:11:20.802-07:002012-08-29T16:11:20.802-07:00I've seen this movie twice, at age 11 and 21, ...I've seen this movie twice, at age 11 and 21, and it still haunts me. "These Are the Damned"<br />is the only science fiction film I know that<br />works as a classical tragedy. Every good intention based on pity or compassion goes<br />horribly wrong. Each character lives a life <br />isolated from the world - biker, burned-out<br />executive, artist, scientist entrusted to keep<br />the human race from extinction, radioactive <br />child - and every attempt to connect with someone else leads to their doom. The children<br />in their innocence are the most lethal. Had Bernard's plan not been interrupted they would<br />have inherited an uninhabited wasteland, but<br />after their brief minutes of impossible freedom<br />they will remember the world was once different<br />when (and not if, such is mankind's destructive-<br />ness as embodied by the adults)they leave their<br />underground prison. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com