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Night has fallen, and Mischief opts for flinty grays and blacks, the city-slickness and palpable sexuality of Cronenberg's Crash and Verhoeven's Basic Instinct . Clever camera work tilts the asphalt, giving the spot some depth and visual interest.
Anyway, Instinct is built around that theater standby, the series of charged encounters between a psychiatrist and a shackled patient, during which it dawns on the doctor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that he and his society are the ones who are actually in need of curing.
If we outnumber this alien being, our instinct tells us to kill it and ask questions later (or, at the very least, discriminate against it and keep it in a manageable place).
Instinct is "inspired" by Daniel Quinn's 1991 cult novel Ishmael , which is largely a Socratic, telepathic dialogue between a man and a gorilla, the latter of whom hectors the former about the destructive path of modern society and restates the history of the world as a struggle between "leavers" (animals, wise nomadic tribes) and "takers" (mostly white males).
But his last real success was Basic Instinct back in 1992.