Watching 1971’s ANDROMEDA STRAIN. At the end of this very intellectual, emotionally cool film a doctor must run a gauntlet of ladders and lasers to stop a nuclear weapon from killing him and spreading an extinction-level pathogen around the world. Seriously tense, exciting stuff.
And he barely makes it, combining puzzle-solving, physical courage, physical strength, resistance to pain, focus and clarity of intent into a final climactic action.
It’s “wow” stuff. But LIFEWRITING sugge...
Published on July 09, 2018 08:47