Is it not wonderful to watch the story of a haberdasher? Though they are not so mercurial as hatters, they have a certain flair. This one in particular as he gains omnipotence. What would you do if you had unlimited power. Sartre himself could hardly have devised a worse curse.
All goes wrong, no matter who our anti-hero turns to for advice: clergy, government - one policeman he banishes to that oddest of hades San Francisco. We never needed djinni to lead us astray, it seems. Of course there's a girl in it too. If Candide had to take the inside seam instead of cultivate a garden, could even Pangloss have advised it?
It is hard for any Wells adaptation to top Menzies' Things To Come, but this fantasy is as incomparable.
All goes wrong, no matter who our anti-hero turns to for advice: clergy, government - one policeman he banishes to that oddest of hades San Francisco. We never needed djinni to lead us astray, it seems. Of course there's a girl in it too. If Candide had to take the inside seam instead of cultivate a garden, could even Pangloss have advised it?
It is hard for any Wells adaptation to top Menzies' Things To Come, but this fantasy is as incomparable.
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