i analyzed the grim unexplored origins of the face swapping cliché

What began as an unsettling late-night twitter dive into the 1966 Japanese sci-fi film "The Face of Another" quickly descended into a rabbit hole investigation of one of cinema's most psychologically disturbing tropes - the facial transplant movie.

In this documentary-style video essay, we'll peel back the layers on the pioneering works like Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face" that first brought the harrowing concept of surgically removing one person's face and grafting it onto another to the big screen.

From there, we'll examine how this grim premise transcended its horror roots to influence deeply provocative films across genres - from John Frankenheimer's identity crisis exploration "Seconds" to John Woo's action/sci-fi thrill ride "Face/Off" to Pedro Almodóvar's dark character study "The Skin I Live In."

What began as visionary artistic expression of the darkest depths of human loneliness and obsession has now become a widely embraced convention. But at what cost to our cultural psyche?

Prepare to be unsettled as we analyze the real-life inspirations behind these cinematic face transplantation stories that are even more macabre than the films themselves. Tap in to confront the grim unexplored origins that gave birth to this controversial silver screen cliché head-on.

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Eyes without a face (1960) - https://amzn.to/3JDSIOD

Seconds (1966) - https://amzn.to/4di4xHX

The face of another (1966) -
Stream: https://archive.org/details/the.-face.of.-another.-1966.720p.-web-dl.-aac-2.0.-h.-264-gabe
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