Death Watch (1980)
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Genres - Science Fiction, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Sci-Fi |
Release Date - Apr 1, 1982 (USA - Unknown), Apr 1, 1982 (USA) |
Run Time - 128 min. |
Countries - Germany, France |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user's eyes. Keitel is assigned by ruthless TV producer Harry Dean Stanton to secretly probe the subconscious of a dying woman, played by Romy Schneider. Stanton is only interested in the grim spectacle of what goes on inside the brain of someone who knows she's doomed. Keitel, on the other hand, becomes increasingly compassionate--and disgusted by the tawdriness of his assignment--as he stares into Schneider's tortured psyche.
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death, director, employment, implant, investigation, mass-media, privacy, subconscious, terminal-illness, woman, X-ray, abuse, brain, camera, disease, fiction, future, head [body part], man, media, natural, peeping-tom, producer [showbiz], scientist, society, television