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Metamorphosis
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- Year:
- 1990
- 92 min
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Aw, I was beginning
to think you weren't coming.
Game is almost over.
Doesn't look like I missed too much.
It's a game between teachers
and students of the various departments.
Mike, who is the power behind Houseman?
Behind Houseman? God.
The board of director likes him about
as much as a blast of smoke in the eyes.
Then how is it last year he was able
to attain financing of 200,000 dollars?
Oh, yeah, yeah!
Because our young, eccentric
and subordinate Dr. Houseman
is the most brilliant genetic
engineer the American University
has produced in the last 10 years.
You don't ask a genius
how he spends his money.
That is Peter Houseman.
Physiology and medicine
have cast light on the most
inaccessible recesses of our organisms.
Immunology has routed hundreds
of invisible enemies to our health and...
Embryology has accomplished the joining
of ovium and spermatoza in-vitro.
But human genetics has taken only
the first tentative steps forward.
The genome is formed of approximately
three billion components.
These components are the letters
in the genetic alphabet.
Now calculate that if one wished
with an average of 10,000
characters per page...
Aren't you exaggerating a little?
I only want to see
if I can make him stutter.
...1,000 pages each.
And it is in the vast
encyclopedia that our...
Hereditary patrimony of our
species must be contained.
Not only the color of our eyes.
Not only the color of our hair.
Not only the masterpiece of nature
which happens to be the exciting
thighs of our generous Patricia.
But also the memory of millions
of years of evolution.
Fading shadows of races and generations
which have all disappeared.
It is our family album.
Now, to be able to leaf
through it from beginning to end
and read it would be to know our past.
Who we were,
who we are and most importantly,
what we will become.
Professor, message.
Dr. Houseman, please, a moment.
You can't go in there!
There is no point being angry with me.
I can't do anything.
And just whose good idea is this?
Not mine.
The commission has decided
that all funding requests
must be accompanied by a report
which details all work in progress.
As well as the obligation to publish all
experiments funded during the past year.
This is not the agreement that we made
when you offered to have me
teach at this university!
Peter, be reasonable.
It's an order from
the head office in New York.
This is a private university.
They want to know where the money
they invest in research ends up!
If they send a woman from
the administration to inspect,
it's not up to us
and we can't do anything.
I took this job because
you assured me a full liberty
to carry on my research
with no strings attached.
No one wants to attach any strings.
They only want a report
on your experiments to date.
Christ, Peter! Your department
has gobbed down almost
a quarter of a million dollars in two years
and you haven't published a line!
- Oh, Lloyd, how are you?
- Oh, hello, Mike.
- Dr. Owen.
- Hi.
Sally, this is Professor Lloyd,
leads the biology department.
Oh, Miss Donnelly!
And Dr. Owen is his assistant.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
So, you're from New York.
Mike!
Excuse me.
Mike, I need your help.
- If I can, Peter...
- Of course you can!
You're one of the most senior
members of the staff
and the only one with a little brains.
Mike, some inspectors-type
is sticking her nose
into the allocation of funds
for research.
- Peter, I don't think...
- And I am being
categorically forced into publishing
my work before it's finished.
Each of us has to publish
his work, myself included.
I don't see why you
should be the exception.
Because I don't write jokes and I wouldn't
get the same laughs as you.
I'm sorry, Peter. I can't do anything.
- Mike!
- We'd better go. Gentlemen.
Mike!
Publishing my work before it's concluded
is as much as calling it quits!
And it's all the fault of some
hysterical old maid in menopause!
You were at the game yesterday,
weren't you?
Peter Houseman.
Maybe you can convince him
to change his mind.
I'll try.
But I wouldn't expect too much from
an hysterical old maid in menopause.
Oh, Christ!
What's the composition?
Nine parts serum
and one part glucose dioxide.
One part in 14.
- Triple the glucose.
- But we'll kill him!
I know, but I don't want to run the risk
of losing direction if it's too weak!
I'm sorry, Willy,
we're running out of time.
It's not my fault.
It's penetrated
the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
Delta waves normal.
Two cycles per second.
Cardiac pressure normal.
Willy, it's perfect.
No, no, it's not perfect.
The alpha and beta waves are increasing.
The pressure is rising.
It's an effect of the radiation
on the limbic circuit evolution.
It's absorbing too quickly.
Still rising.
Absurd. It's ridiculous!
Well, it is, nonetheless,
a fascinating theory.
If the data is exact.
It's impossible. He's making fun of us.
Houseman, your report is as
scanty as it is fascinating.
And notably imaginative.
for you to elucidate
the objective of your research.
Given your request for new funding
of 150,000 dollars.
I was requested to report
on what I was doing
and to justify my expenses of last year.
In my report, everything is
specified down to the last cent.
Now, as far as my experiments
are concerned,
they are based on
the theory of the mechanism
of auto-destruction by Brunet.
A ridiculous theory which was
abandoned by Brunet himself!
He abandoned it because, at the time,
technology for proving it
didn't yet exist.
Today, it is possible.
And you have been successful?
Yes, even if further
experiments are needed.
You mean to say you've successfully
identified the genetic sequence?
- Yes.
- But that's magnificent!
Undoubtedly.
Now, let me see if I have
this right, Dr. Houseman.
If you inhibit that protein,
canceling the genetic code
which creates it,
reproduce themselves integrally
and in a constant manner, hmm?
- Yes.
- So then,
become diseased.
The cells of the liver, brain,
bones, the skin would
reproduce themselves forever.
Which means that old age
would be defeated.
- And even death.
- Perhaps.
You are not only arrogant
and megalomaniacal,
you're also stupid.
- May I go now?
- Dr. Houseman,
your experiments carried out to date,
on what have they been performed?
On cell cultures.
This I took for granted.
But of what parasite?
No parasites.
On rats, monkeys?
Human embryos.
Those sons of b*tches!
Those bureaucrats!
The only thing they care about
is their soft job,
and that pig Lloyd would trade
his only remaining leg
to see me with my back against the wall.
Perhaps a more
detailed research. One with...
With all the results of the experi...
No!
I want to finish the experiment
and then report on it
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