Kern is an older man, a judge who is a voyeur on his neighbours private lives. He becomes a mentor type figure for Valentine and together they discuss the true meaning of altruism. This is one of those films that’s almost impossible to accurately describe.
The final dance scene is a movie moment that will stay forever in the history books . An early example is the French science-fiction short The Future Eve . In both the film and the symbolist novel it’s based on, a man driven to despair by his unfeeling spouse has a fictionalised Thomas Edison create Hadaly, a lifelike android, in her image. The husband falls in love with the replica – whose personality provides all that his human wife could not. Following the adventures of a farm boy called Westley who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup , from Prince Humperdinck , it is … Read More