Thursday 24 June 2010

Trailers

Movie trailers these days rarely provide the audience with anything of value. They either include all the best one-liners, or they reveal the entire plot (see the trailer for Quarantine, the remake of the sublime [rec.]). It just so happens that the original trailer for The Dead Zone was a bit of a masterclass of the art, revealing nothing, yet appearing to show everything, while lending a glimmering insight into the thematic discourse: religion, retribution, the problem of evil, etc.. It's also worth noting, and worth it for it's own sake because it contains the extremely powerful and terrifying image of a goldfish bowl at boiling point.

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