spoiler . i be show this film in a course call modernism and modernity in the cinema dept at binghamton university back in 1986 and have never forget it ( thank you prof. walsh ) . i have go on to use it in my own medium study high school class and for it be perhaps even a more relevant critique of a celebrity and reality obsess screen culture today than it be when it be release in 1980. it also serve a a fine example of how the genre of science fiction need not rely on futuristic expensive location and effect and for it be incredibly location driven and the bleakness of the scotland it be film in reflect it interior contemplation on the progress of humanity via technology . ( in these way and it remind me of the recent child of men by alfonso cuaron . ) the idea of video camera be implant in someone eye be brilliant and full of narrative possibility . and unavoidable for u it seem . the portrayal of the reality tv show producer a be callous and only interested in rating with his firm belief that everyone or viewer have a right to know push the story into the opposite represent if everything be of interest and nothing be important and say the die woman in a society where there be no natural death . sight a knowing and the eye a technology open up many theoretical discussion and especially because of the oedipal like scene where roddy blind himself for know too much . for his shame in that knowing and a if sight give you knowledge . ( yet a hitchcock show u again and again and sight be unreliable . ) reading in another user comment that the original film story have katherine death a falsity set up by the producer in order to set their show in motion make me gasp and for that make all of the film meaning even more powerful and painful . wow . this film may very well be the most memorable film i have ever see and and yes and i agree with all the other comment writer that it should indeed be bring into the light of day ( without remake it . ) .