I first saw this movie 40 years ago,it took me by surprise and made a big impression on me as it was a different type of film I saw of Rock Hudson,the tone,plot photography,cast,THE ENDING...an amazing film and one of my favorites (came across of VHS copy years ago,still have it!) Auckland New Zealand 2024
Most everything in “Seconds” not just works but works dazzlingly well. John Frankenheimer created a parable of the Faust myth, coupled with North America’s pronounced fear of aging. James Wong Howe’s glistening camerawork looks at times like a superior “Twilight Zone” episode. And it is refreshing to see Criterion adding back in film grain, after their crisp, digital restoration. Discussions of dystopian story telling aside, today it is impossible not to see the story resonating with Rock Hudson’s Hollywood make over as an heroic, good natured, heterosexual everyman.
In 1965 California, the youth generation blossomed. It was a nudist bacchanal. Adults from a earlier time, like Rock Hudson in the film, were tense, ill at ease, trying a little too hard to have a good time. Social conventions were being exploded and not everybody was comfortable with that. Then there was the Manson killings and it all suddenly ended.
@@Mark-td5ux Unlikely, but you're missing the point. The film is about a character who changes his identity and appearances with the help of plastic surgery, and the psychological horrors that engenders.
