The Fly

I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake When people talk about Body Horror, this is what I think about. It's just a sad story, afterall, where you get to see the slow decay of a man's body, losing his whole humanity as a teleporter fuses his DNA with a fly. The movie depicted masterfully the difference between Brundle and Brundlefly, both phisically and emotionally. He started from being a shy and socially inept scientist and slowly became wilder, more instinctive, aggressive and selfish. We get to witness the whole process of transformation, from the early stages with small "fly hair" growing on his body, to the bubbly skin breaking under the effect of the mutation, a clear depiction of cancer effects. And all this because of an impulsive moment of anger, a SINGLE error that changed his whole life. The relationship with Veronica made it even worse, having to deal with both a man fighting with a disease and a girl having to witness the decline of her loved one ...