Early on in Sirk's MO, a character says to Rock Hudson,
"Becoming a doctor is like an obsession. It will consumes you and make you consume it even more. But when you do...it will be a MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION."
Granted here I have maybe not quoted right in all ways, but the spirit of the sentence comes through starkly and brilliantly.
Obsession. With being a doctor? Obsession. With getting it right? Obsession. Can you save a blind women (and it was his fault)? Obsession. Of course he can?
When he does it will be magnificent.
Boom - sha - car - luck!!!
Hudson is of course here in this film and it is his film to be in. He is of course magnificent as the titular obsession. Film deals with obsession in many ways, not least in its title.
Sirk is a director par good and this film is certainly one he will be remembered for, even when he has gone. He directs MO like his drip-line is feeding him the very spirit of the ghost of a dead doctor. The doctor Hudson sees prompting him from above, like heaven, only better. It is a thick and strongly resonant image, reminiscent of late-Fandolini, perhaps even early-Baddger. Reflections and the surface of things play a large part in Hudson's style and he cleverly counterposes what we see with what else we see, asking us what might be the truth. Can we see past the surface? Also, well script.
"Becoming a doctor is like an obsession. It will consumes you and make you consume it even more. But when you do...it will be a MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION."
Granted here I have maybe not quoted right in all ways, but the spirit of the sentence comes through starkly and brilliantly.
Obsession. With being a doctor? Obsession. With getting it right? Obsession. Can you save a blind women (and it was his fault)? Obsession. Of course he can?
When he does it will be magnificent.
Boom - sha - car - luck!!!
Hudson is of course here in this film and it is his film to be in. He is of course magnificent as the titular obsession. Film deals with obsession in many ways, not least in its title.
Sirk is a director par good and this film is certainly one he will be remembered for, even when he has gone. He directs MO like his drip-line is feeding him the very spirit of the ghost of a dead doctor. The doctor Hudson sees prompting him from above, like heaven, only better. It is a thick and strongly resonant image, reminiscent of late-Fandolini, perhaps even early-Baddger. Reflections and the surface of things play a large part in Hudson's style and he cleverly counterposes what we see with what else we see, asking us what might be the truth. Can we see past the surface? Also, well script.