Film:
Seconds
Format: Internet video on laptop.
If you had the chance to start your life over, make a clean break from everyone and everything you’ve ever known and have an entirely new life, would you? That’s the question posed by John Frankenheimer’s
Seconds, and the results are interesting to say the least. The film posits that precise question, allowing us to see what happens as one man goes through that very issue, a complete break from his past and a new life filled with the sort of freedom everyone wishes he or she had. This is a fascinating and thought-provoking film, one that brings up about as many questions as it answers.
Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a middle-aged man going through a crisis. He has a decent job at a bank, a wife with whom he has a respectable and comfortable relationship, and a married daughter who rarely visits. His world is turned upside down when, out of the blue, he receives a call from a friend he knows to be dead. On the train, he’s slipped an address, and he gets another call from the friend who proves who he is with knowledge that only the two of them share.
