Rival entomologists take delight in degrading each other in front of fellow professional scientists, until one day, Professor Matthew Pawkins (James Wilby) collapses and dies at a lecturn about to give a speech. With no one to challenge him, Paul Hapley's (Rupert Graves) work begins to deteriorate, and a sudden onset of guilt has him hallucinating over a new species of moth that only he can see. The body of the moth has Pawkins' face, and Hapley regards this 'reincarnation' as nothing but a figment of his imagination. Overwrought, Hapley eventually winds up in a straight jacket, unable to loosen Pawkin's grip on his psyche from the great beyond. It's a story about how one man loses his grip on reality, intensified by the guilt associated with the idea that his ridicule contributed to his adversary's death.
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They Really Bugged Each Other
Hitchcoc22 April 2020
Two entomologist face off, with one of them being routinely ridiculed by the other. This leads to the death of the victimized guy and the slow and steady destruction of the other guy. We must parse whether he is beset by guilt and hallucinations or there is actually a formidable adversary. This was modestly entertaining, better than the first two presentations.
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