The TERMINAL MAN

The TERMINAL MAN
   Film (1974). Warner Bros. Prod/dir/written Mike Hodges, starring George Segal, Joan Hackett. Based on The Terminal Man (1972) by Michael CRICHTON. 107 mins, cut to 104 mins. Colour.
   Segal plays a man who suffers from violent blackouts as a result of brain damage suffered in a car accident. Doctors use him as an experimental guinea pig: into his brain they insertelectrodes linked to a tiny computer implanted in his shoulder, so that when a convulsion starts the computer will automatically send soothing impulses to the brain. However, the brain enjoys the soothing effect so much that it induces the blackouts at an ever-increasing rate; the man is driven to commit further acts of violence and finally has to be shot down. Quotes from T.S. Eliot, music by Bach, colour-coded visual symbolism (withlots of black) - all seem to aspire to a significance that does not, in the end, seem very profound. The mutually destructive relationship between man and machine is interesting; the stereotypes (monstrous doctors, etc.) are crude.
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   See also: CINEMA.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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