![]() Bujold, even though she speaks with a thick French-Canadian accent, was the perfect protagonist. This was keep with the theme that YOU, THE VIEWER, are in the hospital and the "cuts" are as impersonal and precise as the doctor's scalpel. ![]() Crichton's editing pace was also a stroke of genius. ![]() Hirschfield's "Jefferson Institute" sequences were also fantastic. ![]() The technique of keeping the images at the hospital as cold, sterile and clinical as possible was brilliant. Crichton did a wonderful job on the directing and the screenplay. It was Sci-Fi in 1978 - now an all-to-real reality. Technology, like in the film, can now sustain life for as long as the machine(s) and/or computers can function. In China, prisoners are "harvested" for their organs so others can benefit. Even though this film is a bit dated, It is almost becoming a reality. Crichton are masters at this genre - Making the incredible credible. The great thing about the film, and the book - of course, was that we put our trust in people like doctors, policemen, goverment officials, and the like - and most of the time that trust is "blind faith". ![]() In terms of the suspence, tension and general spookiness of such a "normal and everyday" subject as hospitals, doctors, etc., was very influential in how I perceived the things around me. "Coma", as well as other mid-to-late 70's films, was one of the reasons I became a filmmaker myself. ![]()
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