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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Those are all great films, but (apart from Back to the Future 2 lol) why are they ahead of their time?
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Well, Seconds is generally dystopian. Also as the storyline involves plastic surgery, it must have taken quite an imagination to write it when plastic surgery wasn't nearly as prevalent. There's also something contemporary about people wanting to become another person, and all of the metaphysical questions of 'identity' that it entails.
Shame it's impossible to find on DVD in The UK. I just remember watching it on BBC2 on a Saturday with an introduction by Alex Cox (can anyone remember the name of that show again? I think I asked demonrail in a thread about horror films but I've forgotton again).