At 15:41 10/09/01, you wrote:
>On Monday, September 10, 2001 12:38 AM Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
>sentience@pobox.com wrote:
> > (For those of you who saw "The Others", this is by the same director.
> > "The Others" was also a good movie, but not as good as this.)
>
>One big problem I had with "The Others" was the complete overdirected
>manipulation in the film. This, and the fact that the plot is just a rehash
>of a few other stories and movies, e.g., "The Turn of the Screw," the
>original "The Haunting," and a certain play whose name I won't mention for
>fear of spoiling the ending.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Daniel Ust
> See my tastes in film at:
>http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/Film.html
Hmmmmmm
Interesting film list. Just out of interest have you
seen the movies "Pi" and "Gattaca".
Very different subject matters but both take a fairly refreshing
perspective for modern films.
Pi is the tale of a young math genius, who becomes obsessed with the idea
that the calculation of Pi
holds deep secrets about the basic structure of the universe. Following
some fascinating narrative and
conceptual twists, and truly inspired cinematography.
The film ends with a somewhat depressing conclusion, but the journey to
this point is amazing.
Highly recommended.
Gattaca is the story IMHO mostly about sibling rivalry, self determination
and environmental forces
verses genetic predisposition in terms of personal development. Many ppl i
know felt it had an anti-genetic
technology message. I myself felt it to be a more complex examination of
genetic information/manipulation
issues mostly focused on the fact that genetic predisposition/potential of
an organism once played out
during it's development does not guarantee on which side of the
predisposition/potential curve that
individual organism will come to rest. Once again highly recommended.
Later
Zeb
"FURIOUS GREEN DREAMS, LAY SLEEPING IN STATE,
BUT SOON THE GREAT JELLY SHALL RISE FROM THE
DEPTHS,
AND ALL THOSE WHO MOCKED SHALL KNOW THEIR FATE
IS SEALED"
Guru Zeb,
Hacienda,
Manchester, 1989
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