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Movies: The Time Machine
The following is a movie I've watched and reviewed. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not selling DVDs. This is not a list of movies that tell you "the truth about UFOs". Simply said, I like movies. Each review is as simple and non technical as possible.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 31, 2006 0:25 AM
Full title: The Time Machine.
Year: 1960.
Director: George Pal.
Starring: Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Yvette Mimieux, Rod Taylor, Alan Young.
Language: English.
Price: 19.49 €
Rating: 
Description: Here today, gone to tomorrow. When George (Rod Taylor) sits at the controls of his new creation, he has all the time in the world! He's invented a Time Machine that whisks him from 1899 to war ravaged moments of the 20th century and into 802701. In that far-off era, passive Eloi face a grim future as prey to the glowing, wild, subterranean Morlocks... unless the time-traveling stranger from the past intervenes.
At the controls of the movie H.G. Wells' classic The Time Machine is effects trailblazer George Pal, whose features and short films won a combined seven Oscars and Special Awards: from the nuclear destruction of London (complete with lava eruption!) to the colorful whirligig of time travel.
It can be noted how the movie shows the two imaginary possibilities: an ideal human race (Eloi) living in eternal paradise but without culture, and the evil, primitive-looking Morlocks who've kept some science, despite living underground like beasts. As if humanity had split into two groups, each owning key gifts (earth and food versus science). Each cannot survive without the orher, like light and darkness.
The machine looks awful, an original design: inspired by sleigh rides, it has nevertheless a victorian look.
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