Simon

Simon

1980 · 97 min · EN · PG · 6.4 (20 votes)
Dir. Marshall Brickman · Starring Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright, Fred Gwynne

He loves you. Do what he says.

ComedyScience Fiction

A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he was a living-being from another planet.

VIBE

This film feels like a bizarre, thought-provoking experiment. It's a quirky, unsettling journey into the mind, questioning reality and identity with a darkly humorous, philosophical edge. A strange trip that lingers.

absurdistunsettlingquirkydarkly humoroussteadylow-fi sci-ficharacter-drivenphilosophical comedyidentityreality vs. perceptionscience ethicsexistentialism
brainwashingscientistevolutionpsychosis
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