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I wanted to kill myself after watching

posted 14 years ago by fabian5003
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I felt so phony. I thought, '*beep*! I'm part of all this'. The feeling went away later. Anyway the film was excellent. I felt the incredible need of standing really close to the TV and the volume way up. The end was great. It's one of the greatest movies I've seen and it's great that as the film progresses, it catches more and more your attention. I'll be honest, it also made me feel like back on the days when I was on Oxycodone.

Philip Glass Did an excellent job too.

"Some drunk writer once said that there are no great second acts in life".

[–] 14 years ago

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[–] MoviemanCin 9 years ago

Seriously?? Damn, you need to get a life. Oh yeah, and stay off the drugs.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, or doesn't.

[–] SamoanJoes 8 years ago

I thought the movie was scary. Seeing the world from such high perspectives with this music and watching a sort of evolution progress just seems scary.

[–] avortac4 (3458) 4 years ago

"..watching a sort of evolution progress"

More like 'everyday insanity of the masses and corporations'.

There's no evolution here, it's more like devolution, if one wants to use such a word. This describes 'everyday life' of people on this planet.

Any progress is more towards efficiency and better enslavement of the people than anything real or spiritual, so you'd be more accurate to call it 'regression'.

So, devolution-based regression that people call their lives - that's what you are watching. The thing is, some things, like how INSANE it all is, is easier to observe from a different perspective. Perhaps that's why E.T.s are so keenly able to see just how mad this planet and its systems and people are.

But worry not, it seems soon everyone will be microchipped and then independent thought can be eradicated by a simple algorhithm..