6/13/2023 0 Comments Tarzan film in romana![]() Solomon lets the employees that work there - no one is introduced by name or captioned - talk about their day-to-day activities as they show the crew around the institute, occasionally diving into the place’s glorious history as well. ![]() Further adding to the almost sci-fi like atmosphere of crazy scientists and their secret laboratories is the fact that the institute reportedly tried to create a simian-human hybrid in Soviet times, an experiment that was doomed to fail because of biological incompatibility. This creates an eerie dissonance between the flickering images of the past, when the future seemed boundless and bright, and the near-empty and dilapidated state of the establishment in the present. In an elegant yet straightforward visual sleight-of-hand, some of the archive footage is actually projected on the walls of the rooms containing some of the caged animals. ![]() The particular history of the institute - which was founded by endocrinologists in 1927, when testicle grafting was in vogue (hence the odd title) - is told through a combination of archive footage and Solomon and cinematographer Radu Gorgos’ presence at a quick guided tour of the three small museum rooms of the institute.
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