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Low key favourite shots in horror films
Garbage theme
What's the name of the film again...
18th century cameroon...?
Had no idea this guy was also...
Subtel reference in 'Donnie Brasco'
'Carlito's Way' reference
Same sex couple actually makes a lot of sense for this particular story...
This is a strange one...
This one borrows quite a bit from...
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Your points 3 and 4 have aged extremely well, unfotunately...
The good and truly moral person is not the one who is never tempted to commit evil. It's the one who is tempted to, but has the moral fortitude to renounce evil and not act upon their basest impulses.
I wouldn't trust the former, because he is a saint and most likely has little in common with normal human beings and little understanding of the human experience.
Don't know for sure, but looks like the first one only, with some characters and minor plot elements from the other two books (think I spotted Sophon, the giant stellar particle accelerator....). The Chinese series is 30 episodes long and only tackles the first book as well.
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry you had to live through this. Seems you've processed it and are well adjusted as an adult though, so that's good. I'm not saying one should whish to experience these kinds of ordeal, but I think they do make us better persons if we manage to live through them (mostly) unscathed: more compassionate, and more attuned to the complexity of human beings and their motives.
In Carrie's case, the poor kid also has to deal with an abusive single parent at home, on top of all the bullying at school. More than enough to push anyone over the edge. Also she seems mentally ill by the end of the film, she has paranoid delusions and this adds the complex question of legal insanity and mental competency to the mix.
I suppose the tragedy of real life is that she can (and probably is) BOTH a victim and a perpetrator (or a 'heroin' and a 'villain' as the OP puts it). Ideally we should be able to entertain both the antithetic ideas that she's to be pitied and worthy of compassion, and that she should be condemned and punished for her immoral acts, at the same time.
As Manzon's wife says in William Friedkin's 'Sorcerer': No one is "just" anything.
Now that's an interesting question and invitation to change perspective...
What do you think yourself ?
Skynet also updated the T-800 model to reduce the size of its jaw, add a self-awareness module that let's the T800 know when it is doing cool shit, and a built-in 'wound-but-don't-kill-people-and-then-later-pretend-you're-doing-so-because-a-10-year-old-brat-ordered-you-to'.
And Connery plays a Spaniard in the original film !
Congratulations! It was mine for going into baseball...
It's also a pretty honest poster, because that's precisely the level of cleverness and subtlety this show has to offer.
"The problem is that...."
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Oh, there's not just one "the problem". There are many. One of them is politics inviting itself in every single aspect of early 21st life. The name of this site is MOVIEchat.org, not POLITICSchat.org. And yet, the vast majority of posts seem to be about either politics or box-office considerations. Precious little cinema is discussed around here anymore (if there ever was).
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