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HUH?????????????????? ????????


Why no one talking about this film?? I have many questions.

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Well it IS one of the best Love stories I've ever seen! But it was only on VHS for so long most people forgot about it1 What would you like to know? Maybe..just maybe I can help?

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It was an interesting story --- just not very believable.

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Exactly.

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It is very interesting, but I suppose the odds of this happening in real life are pretty slim. I do believe in fate and sometimes we encounter people who are completely at odds with our own lifestyle and personality. You cannot always predict the outcomes of life's events and certainly not understand why you might be attracted to a certain person who is all wrong for you. So I cannot easily dismiss the events in this movie.

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If two people who were this closely related met each other, it's quite plausible that they would be strongly attracted to one another without knowing why, at least that's what some recent research and a lot of anecdotal evidence suggests (the so-called Genetic Sexual Attraction effect). What is totally unbelievable is the string of coincidences that allow this to take place in this movie. The odds of either of the two major events in the sequence occurring are slim. The chance that both could occur -- Faber first encountering Hencke's brother and traveling with him to Mexico at the precise time of Hencke's suicide and almost immediately afterwards encountering Hencke's stepchild who is his own genetic daughter -- is frankly unbelievable. To make matter worse, it was unnecessary. I don't really see what the whole Mexico episode contributes other than to weaken the plot's plausibility. The necessary exposition could have been handled in some other, less conspicuous way. Obviously, however, the role of coincidence is a major theme in the movie as Faber keeps talking about it throughout.

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Well im more knowledgable on the book rather then the movie but in the book the whole point was really to break Faber. Its trying to show you what the temptations of the Technological age lead to and how untrue it is to live in a world with odds scientific facts and such and how much is still fait and unknown. How a person with such a logical perception is still so wrong. Also ,more so in the book, Faber is a huge liar, not just to the reader but also himself always defending himself when indeed he was totally wrong all along and feels bad about everything. So while it is really completely unbelievable thats exactly the point. I would not really say its a romance as at least in the book its never really delivered this way owing possibly to Fabers narration which is as Faber himself more sober and logical rather then romantic, and when it does its mostly so because Faber is trying to reason himself.

Cogito ergo Sum

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Yeah, I thought it had moments of greatness but then too often descended into cheesy melodrama.

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