Welcome back to the listening (for those who want to spare me a little charity) of the exclusive and elite column I Discutibili Trittici di Aleph.
Today's episode titled: “The films I adored as a child” reveals, besides my relatively venerable youthful age, a certain taste for a cinematic genre quite typical of the pre-proto-adolescent age, characterized by a love for particular apocalyptic visions not always praised by critics.
The first film I propose is:
OMEGA MAN - 1975: White Eyes on Planet Earth, from 1971 - directed by Boris Sagal, starring Charlton Heston.
Without unrolling the entire plot (those interested can easily search for it on the Internet), I propose just one personal point of reflection: The film is based on a story from the 1950s (I am Legend, surely rings a bell) set in 1975. Humanity is almost gone due to a catastrophic biological war that has created monstrous mutants with white eyes, and our hero tries to find a way to save what remains of the healthy living beings by searching for a vaccine.
The point is 1975. Could one have hypothesized a pandemic in the 1970s? Ridiculous… well, not so much after all. Kisses ;)
The Omega Man (1971) Official Trailer - Charlton Heston Movie