MOSQUITO COAST

'''MOSQUITO COAST. Peter Weir, dir.''' USA and other countries: Warner (dist.), 1986.

Mainstream film (or "mundane," in S. R. Delany's useful usage). Harrison Ford plays a Frankenstein figure working toward human perfection as much as trying to bring ice to the jungle. Note description of the pilot project ice machine as a living thing with guts—and the shots of the full-scale ice machine against the jungle: a richly significant image of the imposition of the mechanical upon the organic (see under Background the entry for H. Bergson).