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The World's Greatest Sinner

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1962 · 82 min Drama
6.7 / 10 · TMDB

A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.

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Year 1962
Country United States of America
Genre Drama
Director Timothy Carey
Runtime 82 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.7/10 (13 votes)

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Timothy Carey constructs his film as an obsessive, quasi-documentary study on the birth of a personality cult. He relies on a series of increasingly unhinged public performances to explore how mundane dissatisfaction can metastasize into messianic delusion and political frenzy.

Those who tire of polished narratives will find raw, hypnotic power in this portrait of a petty tyrant. What lingers after the final frame is a deeply unsettling question about our own susceptibility to such figures. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Timothy Carey

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Watch late at night, in a state between wakefulness and sleep, to fully succumb to its hypnotic, near-nightmarish rhythm.

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