Iceman

 Iceman 1984

• Director: Fred Schepisi
• Seen by the director: Last Orders, Six Degrees of Separation, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lyndsay Crouse, John Lone, David Strathairn, Danny Glover
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Timothy Hutton – The Ghost Writer, Secret Window, Beautiful Girls, Daniel
• Lyndsay Crouse – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daniel
• David Strathairn- UFO, American Pastoral, Hotel Marigold 2, The Tempest, Good Night and Good Luck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A League of Their Own, Matewan, Silkwood
• Danny Glover – Andron, 2012, Be Kind Rewind, Honeydripper, Dreamgirls, Manderlay, Beloved, Lethal Weapon
• Why? I like winter
• Seen: 19 August 2022      

       It’s the hottest day of summer so why not watch a cold film?

       An intact Neanderthal man is found by an Arctic scientific team. Astonishingly, they’re able to revive him.

       Anthropologist Shephard (Hutton) wants to get to know him as a man while the other scientists want to take him apart and study him for medical reasons.

       I don’t know when the 80’s started feeling old fashioned, but they are, after all, 40 years ago. This has a bit of the feel of the Star Trek of the 60s. That’s a compliment. The original Star Trek was way ahead of its time.

       The universal question – what makes us human? We know that Neanderthals weren’t quite human although we also now know that we have quite a lot of Neanderthal DNA in us. How different are we?

       Why haven’t I seen this film before? Why didn’t I even know about it? It’s interesting. It’s cool. It’s deeper than it seems.      

3 ½ * of 5