Jeff Hewitt at the LARB:
HOUSEFLIES ARE GROSS. They contaminate food, spread illness, and breed in rotting flesh. They’re also notoriously difficult to swat. We’ve invented hundreds of ways to kill flies, everything from glue to electricity. Yet Musca domestica remains, our technologies no match for its evolutionary persistence.
The Fly, David Cronenberg’s 1986 body horror masterpiece, brilliantly plays on this revulsion. The film’s tragic arc, tracing an inventor’s metamorphosis and descent into madness, remains a pinnacle of the genre. But The Fly isn’t about the dangers posed by insects. Instead, it’s a parable about how our technologies warp our view of ourselves—sometimes in dangerous, obsessive directions. A parable as relevant then as it is now, 40 years later.
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