Tag: david cronenberg

kuanios:

“Stories of magical transformations have always been part of humanity’s narrative canon. They articulate that universal sense of empathy for all life forms that we feel; they express that desire for transcendence that every religion also expresses; they prompt us to wonder if transformation into another living creature would be a proof of the possibility of reincarnation and some sort of afterlife and is thus, however hideous or disastrous the narrative, a religious and hopeful concept.”

— Filmmaker David Cronenberg on the similarities between his 1986 film, The Fly, and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. (via theparisreview)