In one far-flung science-fiction film from this period, called The Final Cut, he played a man who uses computers to edit postmortem memories, subjecting himself to lifetime after lifetime of other people’s acts of cruelty, infidelity, and violence. “It’s the way the world looks to me,” his character explains. “The way I see it.” But, as another character tells him, “You were meant to live your own life, too.”
