SXE5: THE FLY

Enter The Void

In today's episode, Bill and Renan return to the work of David Cronenberg—a director twice before discussed on this podcast—to consider the 1986 film many believe to be his masterpiece: THE FLY, starring Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who accidentally fuses his genes with a common housefly, and Geena Davis as the woman who loves him. So: is it actually Cronenberg's best film? Is this movie about aging, disease, and AIDS specifically? Or is it a cautionary tale about science and the nuclear age? What does this movie want us to make of Stathis Borans? Do we think The Fly got Jeff Goldblum his famous role in Jurassic Park? All these questions will be answered, plus an incomplete discussion of Cronenberg's filmography, and whether it's already complete.

Episode links:

• The Fly on IMDb
• The Fly on Wikipedia
• Matt Zoller Seitz review of The Fly
• Collider review of The Fly
• The Fly review at RogerEbert.com
• Den of Geek calls it Cronenberg's masterpiece
• GEEKS on The Fly as the greatest remake ever
• FSR summary of director's commentary
• Is Stathis Borans the hero of The Fly?
• Evaluating the science of The Fly
• Variety review of The Fly opera
• Butterfly baby alternate ending
• The big reveal from the 1958 version
• CGP Grey on Star Trek teleporters
• Chinese scientists teleport particles... kind of
• The Atlantic on the "unethical female journalist" trope
• ENTER THE VOID S1E2: MAPS TO THE STARS
• ENTER THE VOID S2E4: VIDEODROME

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