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Article: Film: The Big Picture: It's the end of the world (again) THE X FILES (15) DIRECTOR: ROB BOWMAN 122 MINS STARRING DAVID DUCHOVNY, GILLIAN ANDERSON
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1998
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For the apparent sophistication of its methods, and the chilly
sobriety of its design, the film of the X-Files deals in some very
primary, obvious pleasures. The paraphernalia of its scientists and
technicians is rejoiced in. The antiseptic space suits and visors;
the black, fleshy rubber gloves resembling aubergines with fingers;
the important looking cranks and dials all these serve the same
purpose that the laboratory equipment in James Whale's Frankenstein
did for 1930's audiences.
A scene in a morgue in which Mulder (David Duchovny) unwraps a
corpse like a Christmas gift, untying the string and peeling back the
cloth wrapping, reminds you of the very literal morbid curiosity
which the ...