Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.
A young woman jumps out of a window, leaving behind her husband, an antiques dealer. Sitting in their bedroom with the body lying in state, the widower remembers her. In his memory, she is nameless, abstract, a state not a life. This is Une femme douce [A Gentle Woman] (Robert Bresson, 1969), closely adapted from Fyodor #Dostoevsky's A Gentle Creature (1876).
C’est épatant les hashtags ! quand les gens se donnent le mal des les saisir bien sûr. Pour un test sur un bug d’Akoma, le logiciel de bdx, je mets un peu au hasard un tag #JeanRenoir. Et puis j’ai la curiosité de l’utiliser, de cliquer dessus. Je trouve une photo que je ne connaissais pas, où il y a Bresson aussi. Je suis le tag #RobertBresson. Quelques beaux posts trouvés. De là, le tag #SergeDaney et de belles choses encore, comme un extrait des Histoires du cinéma de JLG. C’est chouette ! 😋