
As a movie enthusiast, I must confess that the ’90s were quite an intriguing era in the world of cinema. The film industry was thriving, leading to a significant surge in production costs. For instance, ‘True Lies’ in 1994 broke new ground by being the first film to cost over $100 million. Fast forward three years, and the budget for Titanic doubled that figure at an astonishing $200 million. The unexpected triumph of unconventional films like ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘The Full Monty’, and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ prompted studios to become more daring with their investments, allowing A-list actors to venture into less traditional roles. This narrative leads us to Philip Ridley, a filmmaker whose work in the ’90s was as peculiar as a moonlit dream, particularly his enigmatic, offbeat 1995 masterpiece, ‘The Passion of Darkly Noon‘.