A bleak Frankenstein thriller, Seconds attacks the belief that everybody can start over. It takes a science-fiction concept — advanced surgery transforms somebody’s appearance so completely that they can live as an entirely new person — and turns it into terrifying existential drama.
From the moment Arthur steps inside the never-named company, he’s swept along like any other sucker/consumer, advised to leave the details to the experts and to just sign the wavers. The sales pitch as psychological entrapment, Seconds heavily informed The Game. After extensive surgery, Arthur is reborn, but he realizes too late that new face or not, he can’t escape the same spiritual emptiness that sent him fleeing in the first place. The nightmare of a man who acts to fill his emptiness without having an idea of what to fill it with. He longs to see his wife again, but the mysterious organization has spies everywhere and if he makes contact, they will kill him.
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