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Brewster McCloud
Part of the special series MANY VOICES - 100 YEARS OF ROBERT ALTMAN
The Lecturer: Man, incontestably the most advanced creature, has only to observe the flight of birds to realise the weight of the earth's imprisonment. And so, the desire to fly has been ever-present in the mind of man. But, the reality has been long in coming.
Beneath Houston's Astrodrome, a giant stadium of megalomaniacal proportions, the reclusive Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives in a nuclear bunker. There he works on a flying machine as well as on his muscles, which he uses to operate it. He wants to achieve what no one has ever managed to do before, but which has been dreamt of since the beginning of mankind: to fly without the help of an external motor.
The aviation obsessive is hindered in his endeavours by the stupid executive, esoteric groupies, a humanised bird mum, a series of murders linked by bird poo and - how could it be otherwise - gravity. If you can't quite follow the story, it's best to stick with the ornithological narrator (who himself seems to become more and more the object of his science) or simply surrender to this fluttering masterpiece and its rhythmic attraction.