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The Fly (1958)

The Fly (1958)
is not a film noir. C'est pas un noir La Mouche.

The Fly (1958) is a classic nascent colour monster body horror early horror period monster thriller with legs, six legs in fact, all connected to its thorax, and those six legs are out of control science in the optimistic 1950s; gendered and queer multi-image vision of swarm politics; tragic pathos in the abject pursuit of individual destiny over marriage and family; a Lacanian mirror stage, gaze and castration anxiety Name-of-the-Father explosion of fear write large and technicolor; a biopolitics state of exception, killable life and mercy outside the law melodrama; a promissory technoscience, normal accident and precaution and public ethos thriller presentation; and a teen coming of age date and horror exploitation fantasy.