Limits of Embodiment and Metamorphoses of Identity: David Cronenberg’s The Fly
Художественная культура April 9, 2026 N. Gurov Oleg
David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) is examined as a philosophical allegory about corporeality, identity, and the boundaries of the human. The article focuses on protagonist Seth Brundle's bodily metamorphosis after a technological experiment hybridizes him with an insect. The author argues that bodily transformation challenges the integrity of the subject, interpreted through embodied consciousness, the phenomenology of illness, and posthumanist critique. The study draws on scholarship in embodied cognition, philosophy of cinema, and interpretations of body horror as a cultural symptom. Particular attention is paid to 'body betrayal' and the disruption of boundaries between human and non-human.