David Duchovny...

No, it’s not obvious. Why did a talented actor like David Duchovny have to disappear into obscurity? Like everyone else, I used to be a diehard fan of the X-Files about a decade ago. In fact, for a while, my computer password was ‘truustno1’ or something similar. The movie was great. Duchovny made such a great character of being an inarticulate mumbler, that everyone expected great things for him on the big screen. In fact, so did everyone for his partner, played so well by Gillian Anderson. But these two people seem to have fallen prey to their own images as agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. One might, I would say, have trouble imagining them as anything else. Which is, I suspect what happened. Of course, I may be wrong.. but then.. I am a fan, and fans are entitled to their interpretation of things. The one episode of X-Files that I had serious trouble with had Scully driving like the blazes from coast to coast because it was only by traveling parallel to the equator that she could prevent her passenger from dying most horribly. Yes, I disliked this episode because it defenestrates Special Relativity. That is too much to take.

Anways, I was watching ‘Playing God’ last night which has Duchovny as a surgeon who has a drug problem and loses his licence… and then by a series of strange events gets involved with the Mob. Nice movie, could have been handled better, but the failings were more of a directorial nature… the actors were perfectly competent. The soundtrack was quite interesting… but frequently missing when I thought it would be of some help. See it.