A 1983 film by Nicolas Roeg starring Gene Hackman as a gold prospector who strikes it rich and loses himself in the meaninglessness of achieved wealth.
An extreme example of Roeg's fragmented temporal editing applied to a story of hollow triumph — the attainment of the dream destroying the dreamer — a theme Nolan revisits in 'The Prestige' and 'Inception'.
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