The Brain That Wouldn’t Die: Osei-Kuffour Explores Emotional Resonance in Savvy Medical Thriller
Horror and science-fiction have often been stomping grounds for exploring fantastic ideas with miraculous medical and technological breakthroughs, often displaying a suspension of disbelief in B-movie trappings which sometimes eventually seem prescient.
From Jules Verne to Paul Verhoeven, what were once lofty incredulities have either been surpassed or are morphing into helpful or insidious advancements. In the case of Black Box, the assured directorial debut of Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, the experimental treatment at the heart of the narrative seems eerily plausible, even if previously explored in something which once seemed more frivolous in Total Recall (1990), for instance.…...
Horror and science-fiction have often been stomping grounds for exploring fantastic ideas with miraculous medical and technological breakthroughs, often displaying a suspension of disbelief in B-movie trappings which sometimes eventually seem prescient.
From Jules Verne to Paul Verhoeven, what were once lofty incredulities have either been surpassed or are morphing into helpful or insidious advancements. In the case of Black Box, the assured directorial debut of Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, the experimental treatment at the heart of the narrative seems eerily plausible, even if previously explored in something which once seemed more frivolous in Total Recall (1990), for instance.…...
- 10/9/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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