![]() ![]() Crichton's editing pace was also a stroke of genius. Hirschfield's "Jefferson Institute" sequences were also fantastic. The technique of keeping the images at the hospital as cold, sterile and clinical as possible was brilliant. Crichton did a wonderful job on the directing and the screenplay. ![]() It was Sci-Fi in 1978 - now an all-to-real reality. Technology, like in the film, can now sustain life for as long as the machine(s) and/or computers can function. In China, prisoners are "harvested" for their organs so others can benefit. Even though this film is a bit dated, It is almost becoming a reality. Crichton are masters at this genre - Making the incredible credible. The great thing about the film, and the book - of course, was that we put our trust in people like doctors, policemen, goverment officials, and the like - and most of the time that trust is "blind faith". In terms of the suspence, tension and general spookiness of such a "normal and everyday" subject as hospitals, doctors, etc., was very influential in how I perceived the things around me. "Coma", as well as other mid-to-late 70's films, was one of the reasons I became a filmmaker myself. ![]()
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