"Suture" is indeed a thought provoking, even mesmerising film at times. The entire show endeavours to answer the psychological question posed at the very beginning of the film: "How is it we know who we are? Are we the person we think we are?".
I must say I've never seen anything quite like Scott McGehee and David Siegel's "Suture". The pair wrote, produced and directed this film which steps away from the traditional path of entertainment to a wholly philosophical, psychological one. Viewers will not find themselves concerned with such trivia as performances, costumes, cinematography or sets, but rather issues, questions and statements. Issues such as self-awareness, questions such as: "Can we become someone else?", and statements such as: "Skin colour has no relevance to the identification of self". In their black and white feature, McGehee and Siegel fail to differentiate between and African/American man and a man of European descent. We're concerned not with the physical here, but the meta-physical.
As for the answers to these conundrums, one can only reach one's own conclusions. For me though, the personal soul is unchangeable and cannot be interchanged for another's. We may take someone's place, but we cannot become who they are.
Monday, May 5, 1997 - Hoyts Croydon
I must say I've never seen anything quite like Scott McGehee and David Siegel's "Suture". The pair wrote, produced and directed this film which steps away from the traditional path of entertainment to a wholly philosophical, psychological one. Viewers will not find themselves concerned with such trivia as performances, costumes, cinematography or sets, but rather issues, questions and statements. Issues such as self-awareness, questions such as: "Can we become someone else?", and statements such as: "Skin colour has no relevance to the identification of self". In their black and white feature, McGehee and Siegel fail to differentiate between and African/American man and a man of European descent. We're concerned not with the physical here, but the meta-physical.
As for the answers to these conundrums, one can only reach one's own conclusions. For me though, the personal soul is unchangeable and cannot be interchanged for another's. We may take someone's place, but we cannot become who they are.
Monday, May 5, 1997 - Hoyts Croydon