✅️ One of the best movie endings ever, kept unchanged even against test audience misgivings.
✅️ Rare case where—outside film noir—the VO is part of the script, essential, and arresting.
✅️ More and more subtexts reveal themselves with each viewing.
Some part of the audience always finds it funny when the shrinking visibly kicks in, reenacting the eager crowd in the front yard and later the midway spectators.
The Incredible Shrinking Man by Jack Arnold (1957).
Watched at the Bambi theater on January 30, 2026, in its original language.