Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it's possibly one of the most depressing films ever made. (Blinder, 212) Essentially based on the premise that a part of everyone's life is unfulfilled and that we all have a "key unturned" (Blinder, 213), Seconds [F]ocuses on the hallucinatory nightmare of Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph), who takes dramatic and desperate action to fill the empty void in his life. He undergoes plastic surgery to alter his physical appearance in the mistaken belief that this will ... improve his psychological well-being. However, Hamilton makes the fatal error of turning the key and changing his identity to Tony Wilson (Rock Hudson) without knowing what he is looking for on the other side of the door. (Blinder, 213) What Hamilton does discover when he becomes Tony Wilson is a world that is just as disillusioning and constricting as the one he has left behind.