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Insignificance
(1985) – N. Roeg
Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio,
and Joe McCarthy walk into a bar…or rather a hotel room. That’s the basic plot of Nicolas Roeg’s film
which is a stage play that has been opened up a little bit. Michael Emil and Theresa Russell basically do
impersonations of the first two whereas Gary Busey and Tony Curtis are probably
just winging it. The good thing here is
that the script (by playwright Terry Johnson) doesn’t really follow any known
or expected trajectory so it feels fresh.
However, it isn’t always clear what the point is. Perhaps there is something being said about
the perils and side effects of fame and/or the unintended consequences of one’s
behaviour (that are a result of it becoming famous)? Nic Roeg doesn’t lend any recognisable
technique to the film – there are a few flashback or thought bubble moments
visualized briefly by the characters but not enough to bring us back to the
moods or cinematography of Walkabout or Don’t Look Now.
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