It's a pity...


... that this film came out in 1993, before the time of internet film discussion boards. If it had been made a decade later, this board would have as many threads on it as those for Mulholland Dr and Memento.

If you want to see a similar movie -- superb black-and-white cinematography, eerie score, integral hospital scenes -- watch John Frankenheimer's 1966 film Seconds. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the inspiration for Suture.

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I too was thinking of Seconds (which I highly recommend).

I enjoyed Suture but feel there was something missing. Maybe after watching Seconds again I'll pick up on what it was.

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I seem to give this film a look every few years and its the same result- i want to like it, but it just isn't that good. The look of the film is awesome, the music is ok, the acting- I still am unsure about... as said before, with some tweaking, maybe it could really be something special. But this remains one of those dvd's that you buy just to have in one's collection - a semi-cult curio to have playing in the background... I'll have to check out "Seconds".
Although it sounds like "Seconds" is based more in a science fiction genre.

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Yours seems a majority opinion about the movie. I gave it 8 out of 10. It explored our truths and tried to make us agree with an opinion other than our own. I remember the fairy tale about the emperor clothes, where in fact he wasn't wearing any. Two important facts in my opinion-Our identity is important, it is our soul (as stated in the film); Challenge the majority opinion if (and I say if) that opinion has it's basis in a lie, used to belittle and demean, used as a way to separate, isolate, or as a means to use differences as a weapon of control.
The movie also demonstrated that once we are seduced, the road back can be lost. I remember a line in a movie, which I too believe that once you know something is wrong, you must correct it. That's a very hard standard when we put ourselves first. But I believe it's the only truth.

If we can save humanity, we become the caretakers of the world

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I remember reading about this movie in FILM THREAT back in the day. It was the height of that late 80s/early 90s indie movement, where everything was a tad experimental and arty.

I honestly don't remember anything about this movie, other than the black and white cinematography was excellent, and that I more or less liked it. It didn't seem super weird for an indie film at the time...but all around that was kind of a weird time!

I gotta catch up on the director(s) other work!

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Thanks for the insights of the era, which I lived. What I remember most about the 80s is our need to tell our story.

I have been bent and broken, but, I hope, into a better shape, Grimm

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Also take a look at the Japanese The Face of Another.

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