the Medusa Touch (DVD)new and sealed class burton movie

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the Medusa Touch (DVD)new and sealed class burton movie

By the time Richard Burton made this film, he was almost coming to the end of his long career. What we have here is a wonderful English/French/Italian made thriller, and one that i remember fondly from my teenage years.
Those expecting the clashing of swords, mythical monsters, and the hideous Medusa herself will be suprised to find no such creatures - the Medusa is symbolic of the power she has to turn the victim into stone from her gaze. Like Medusa, Burton's character has the power to create catastrophe, simply by willing it to happen.
The opening of the film shows Burton's character watching TV, and the unfolding of a doomed space mission. From behind him he is attacked viciously and left for dead. The film then begins, and what unfolds is a series of disasters and in between, an attempted murder investigation. The film, without confusing the viewer, jumps back and forth between before and after the attack, to when Burton was a troubled boy with uncaring parents to blame, and a truly sadistic nanny, brilliantly cast to resemble Medusa in her looks, even though she is on screen for only a few seconds. Burton begins to tell of his power to his psychiatrist, played by the late Lee Remick (The Omen), who later tells the investigative officer what she has learned, as Burton lays in a coma.

The film is rarely shown on television, so this DVD release will be welcomed by fans, and those who may have heard of it and want to see it. The story is suprisingly good with some twists and turns - a nicely balanced collection of accounts and events, disasters and death. There is nothing outstanding about this film, nore is there anything wrong with this film. Still, this remains one of Richard Burton's final films, but not his final film, and one that remains to be seen and absorbed until the final scene. It will leave you with a chill - the power of cinema is not always in the visuals, but often spoken in words.
Wonderful.