INSIGNIFICANCE

INSIGNIFICANCE, 1985
UK | DVD, Color, 110' | English
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell

Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, conservative Senator Joseph McCarthy who started his witch-hunt for communists via the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, legendary baseball player Joe DiMaggio who was synonymous with the New York Yankees and was also Monroe’s husband, and Albert Einstein who said the atom could be split and developed the theory of relativity… The paths of all these figures cross in 1954 in a hotel room in New York. This “chamber film” adapted from Terry Johnson’s play questions the concept of the “icon” by emphasizing the insecurity of four celebrities and reversing their roles. In this film, Tony Curtis plays a hard-drinking, paranoid Senator and proves that he is open to different types of performance as he takes the risk of playing a ludicrous character. The Senator’s theories about the Russians and Monroe’s joining Einstein in explaining the theory of relativity can be considered masterpiece as scenes!