![]() "Venus Flytrap," not surprisingly, follows the adventure of a fly dumb enough to be caught by an insect-eating plant. Stevie somehow condenses Bose's work, and that of George Washington Carver, into a few rhyming quatrains, producing poetry more humorously garbled than anything else he's written. The first song on the album, "Same Old Story," is virtually impossible to comprehend unless you have been introduced to the work of Jagadis Chandra Bose, a 19th-century Indian physicist who devised delicate equipment to monitor electric impulses from plant tissue. Other Stevie Wonder songs are tied in with the movie. For these, Stevie Wonder provided closely-linked music (from "Earth's Creation," "The First Garden," and "Seasons"). The film does have its glorious moments: lengthy sequences in time-lapse photography show plants growing, unfolding, and transforming. Somehow, with the help of the film's producer, Michael Braun, Stevie Wonder composed a score for a movie he could never have seen. Seeing the film will help people understand Stevie Wonder's misbegotten album, _Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants_, which was released in 1979 before the film had even appeared. ![]() I saw this film when it was briefly released in 1980, in Berkeley, California and I've watched this film many times since (having downloaded a copy from bittorrent). ![]()
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