When I first saw the famous cult film Lord of the flies, or rather, The Desolate Area, I was quite under the impression that the director was going for a horror film. It was a slow paced, gory and completely distorted fever dream about rotting corpses and chain link fences. After seeing the end, I must admit that I was expecting a truly awful film. It turns out, Lord of the Flies is more of a Science Fiction epic, with a lot of intense atmosphere and long, monotonous minutes of vehicular carnage.
The story begins in 20th Century London, where a young woman (Emma Bell) returns home after the marriage ceremony to find her parents dead. She then returns to their old home to live with her Aunt and uncle, who are extremely mean and greedy. The aunt is also obsessed with death, and wants to perform an autopsy on the body which she intends to use for anatomical studies. Meanwhile, Bell is studying in an prep school, where she meets a boy named Paul. They spend a lot of time together, and when the exams for the University begin, Paul becomes more enthralled in the study of his deceased teacher.
One day while doing fieldwork, he finds a dead fly stuck to a piece of cloth. Initially believing it to be a rook, he does not notice that the body has several rows of sharp teeth. Unaware of the fact that it is a fly, he removes the cloth and the sharp points pierce through to Paul's flesh. He panics, not knowing what he has just witnessed. However, before he can call the police, the fly bites him. He falls into a coma, but is saved by Paul, who amputates the top of his head and devours the fly.
The first night in the hospital, he suffers a heart attack, and dies the next day. During the following days, several other incidents occur, and one night leads to another, until all are dead. The police eventually arrive, but it is too late. Paul has made several statements, claiming that the government was involved in the deaths of all the people. To complicate matters even more, there are no bodies, and the police have no way of finding out who did it, or why.
The film takes nearly three hours to tell the events of the first days, as it slowly builds up its mystery. Many of the events are loosely connected, and it is often difficult to make a link between the various points. This is not a film for those with a weak stomach, as it contains strong violence and language. It is also a movie that will leave you wanting more, but wanting it in a different way.
The first Lord of the Flies clip we have seen featured Sean Connery as David Bowie, and here he provides the voice over. His serene beauty, the gentle soul he carries with himself, and the way he interacts with the other characters is endearing. The film is well worth watching, if only to see how Connery changed his role after his experience of the schizophrenia. I can't wait to see what else he is capable of. I suspect he will be quite different from the man I saw on the big screen!
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