Event

FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE

dir. Terrence Fisher, 1953
UK, 81 min.

Here is a love story from the source of modesty, propriety and evil in the form of human reason: the English middle-class. It is a tale from the wet end of a local doctors pipe, of how he nurtured a young genius named Bill and underwrote the laboratory Bill later built with his best friend and co-inventor, Robin. From a semi-electrified barn a contraption is made (seemingly out of plexiglass and television sets) with the ability to duplicate matter. Everyone can now own an original Monet and a Rolls Royce!

The rogue young scientists understand humanity little more than they understand economics, and Bill wants to push the machine into more bodily forms of replicas. Particularly, he wants to manufacture another young woman out of the one he has longed for since childhood. This desire is amplified by Lena's recent marriage to Robin (a conventional arrangement for reproduction). Will she agree to be further duped? Who will the duplicate love, or will she even love at all?