If you like to tickle your nerves, the film "Legend of the Dinosaur" will provide you with such an opportunity!
The entire film is built on two main contrasts - this is the bright joy of life and panic in the face of death. We must pay tribute to the musical designers of the film, the soundtrack to the film is really well-chosen. Here you will hear tunes a la VIA 70s, interspersed with rhythms in the style of disco, as well as intriguing motifs in the spirit of James Bond. Largely thanks to the music and comic play of
Japanese actors, the picture can be watched with interest. By modern standards, the special effects here are pretty primitive: it's a shaking movie camera, a toothy dragon doll that would look nice in a children's play. The 1977 Legend of the Dinosaur is a film that is both light and nervous at the same time.
Legacy of antiquity
The film begins like the fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland”, where the heroine of the plot falls into a deep rabbit hole, which is a long dark tunnel. Only in our history the girl is not in the fairy-tale looking glass, but at the bottom of the cave, the space of which is filled with eggs of real dinosaurs. The young Japanese, the son of a researcher, decides to go in search of a living plesiosaur, living, according to eyewitnesses, near Mount Fuji. The legend of the dinosaur turns into a terrifying reality for the locals, where the monster begins to kill people, cruelly and bloody.
Creativity or nonsense?
From the point of view of art, “The Legend of the Dinosaur” is, rather, a mental outburst filled with personal phobias of the director and author of the script. The impact on the viewer of the film is clearly destructive. There is a lot of screaming, anxious persons smoking in the frame of characters. Undoubtedly, if you wish, you can find a deeper philosophy of the film. The idea that “man is also an animal that does not really understand his nature” is very well reflected in this tape. Take, for example, the scene when the main character meets a girl who has not been seen for a year. Now they will be ready to hug ... When suddenly the girl begins to scream hysterically, seeing behind the curtain a whole plexus of black snakes. Another scene: a naked lady
washes in the shower, suddenly the light turns off in the house, she leaves the bathroom, wipes her hair with a towel, and the monster watches her through the window at that time, and then attacks. Cruel, isn't it? The leitmotif of the reviving beast is also a small shepherd, which is yapping throughout the film. The light frames of the film are very skillfully obscured by scenes in the fog. Quite a few episodes take place in water, on its surface and in depth. These images, when viewed through the prism of psychotherapeutic analysis, indicate to us the unstable prenatal period in which the author of the script was still in the fetal state. “The Legend of the Dinosaur” - the film is ambiguous, on the one hand, it can be called a work frankly harmful, but on the other hand, there are people who like this picture. Therefore, we will not judge anyone strictly, let each of us have our own unique opinion. And if, in spite of everything, after all that has been said, decide to turn on the disk with this picture, then enjoy your viewing!