Review of Westworld (1973) by Al M — 26 Mar 2011
Featuring great performances from Yul Brynner (The King and I) and James Brolin (The Amityville Horror), Westworld is a powerful exploration of the fantasies that haunt our subconscious and the violent desires that reside at the core of human identity.
The film features three different worlds to which paying customers can travel: Roman World, Medieval World, and Westworld. In each world, androids interact with the clients to provide a realistic experience of a more primitive era of civilization, eras in which sex and violence were more easily indulged than in our pacified present the presumably even more Utopian future of the film.
Of course, the androids begin to revolt against their programming--instead, who wants to fucked and killed over and over again for all eternity by a bunch of rich douchebags?? Ultimately, Westworld is a powerful indictment of late capitalist consumerism, of the desires that flood our stupid meaningless lives.
We become so bore with our placated present that we desire the rough-and-tumble aspects of the past. You can see the same drives in extreme sports fanatics, outdoors people, etc. We crave that primal matrix of fucking and killing that we are incapable of confronting in our present reality.
This review of Westworld (1973) was written by Al M on 26 Mar 2011.
Westworld has generally received positive reviews.
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