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Is this a true story??


It says on the dvd cover that this is a true story that happened in the US...

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I'm curious-where can I get the dvd of this? I don't seem to see any listing of a dvd of Patient 14 anywhere. Appreciate any info that you can give.

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This couldn't possibly be true, I've just watched it and at one point in the movie a character says something about "if this leaked it would be bigger than Watergate" or something similar, and I agree so the fact that I haven't read anything about this is any press rules it out for being even remotely true.

This seemed like nothing more than a made for TV movie that while having a promising storyline failed to actually do anything with it.
My daughter fell asleep and my wife, who actually could watch paint dry, soldiered on but was reading a magazine by the end.
Its hard to imagine a 'thriller' being so unthrilling but it was.


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actually I found the idea interestin whether its true or not, its unlikely that its true but interesting idea to make though

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Terrible movie. I fell asleep.

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The story is truely possible because the ears are kind of like a antenna and the brain is like a bio-chemical broadcasting station. So in science something like this is realy possible. A number of scientists and doctors could tell you that.

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you people are stupid...

says its true on the box.. it must be true.
telepathy or any other *beep* has never been proven, it's still up there with "ghosts" and the easter bunny...

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well if its true, the only part ill believe is that MAYBE they tried they're hand at this, but I highly doubted they had anything more than those 42 dead bodies :/

anyway, usenet is you friend.

4ever a 'Scaper

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Is this a true story??

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Oh, I did laugh when I read that!

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and Im a artic monkey

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a white one?

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Yes. Absolutely. Your thoughts are being listened to right now.

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Uh oh...then I'm in trouble...

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I listened to my own thoughts last night, and I put myself to sleep. I imagine if I were put in a room with terrorists, their thoughts would put me to sleep after a few minutes too. As far as women getting upset with the thoughts of men, after a few encounters I'm sure it would start to get boring, and I know that men would be bored after a few minutes listening to the thoughts of women, so this ability would just lead to more people being bored by others, quicker than usual.

This movie has the most awesome premise, but one thing that made me mad was the same, *tired* premise that men think about sex every few seconds, or whatever. It really irritates me, maybe 16-year-olds do this, but I can tell you for sure that 40-something men DO NOT do that. I mean, I will admit when we first meet a woman that we think is bright and attractive, yes, then maybe we might take a physical inventory of her, but is any woman any different? Beyond that, a guy isn't constantly thinking about that.

I did think the scene where they are in bed is pretty funny, but what was even nicer was her very cool response to what he was thinking. She didn't get all offended; she just went downtown like he wanted. Her reaction overall to his thought patterns, including his occasional sexual thoughts, was very nice. I mean, that should be flattering. What was even cooler though was the fact that she wore the earrings when she was near him, to allow for some privacy between them.

It would be nice though to have that ability from time to time, I imagine it would be pretty funny in bed, just like it was in the movie. It might be informative, but one random, unkind thought would really be damaging. I mean, everyone has mean thoughts from time to time, but most times they don't mean it.


"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

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I thought it was a good story, at least as plausable as other sci fi stories I've watched. The funny thing was that I saw it recentely when I was working for one month in Samoa and they sensor all bed scenes. Not only the bed part but they must skip the whole chapter/scene as it is on DVD because movies they show on TV just never make any sense! So I missed that bed scene and anything else in that chapter and it sounds like it was pretty funny!

Maybe I would have been bored with it if shown at home (australia) but since there are only 2 channels in Western Samoa, religious and government, it was just about the most exciting thing I'd seen on TV in week!

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A typical misconception in entertainment industries — perhaps carried over from older mediums (print and radio), where text and speech was important to communicate ideas — is that people only think in speech, while I prefer to think that there are people who rely on text to think and that there are people who use mental images in their thought processes.

This makes catching someone's thoughts more difficult, if a person observed uses the kind of mental imagery that necessarily does not use that person's own (inner) voice, but that of someone s/he thinks about. The trick, then, is to be able to detect what the person's underpinning thought process is in relation to the image and the activity in that image that is working in their primary consciousness. The difference here is in getting to observe what the person perceives in their thought processes, and actually eavesdrop on what he or she really thinks about. Overlap isn't always guaranteed.

Since I haven't seen the film, I guess the experiment was in getting people (or just the protagonist; see below) to only 'hear' someone's thoughts, but not necessarily see them. This would mean that the ability of perception was probably limited to receiving just one type of sensing faculty.

Given the film's premise of 14 people (out of 15) becoming crazy as a result, then I guess the failed method did not include a filter on these people, and so their minds vere overwhelmed. I remember this issue was once handled in an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", where Buffy's mind-reading sensitivity to read others' minds and sensing radius progressively expanded to the point that it became almost impossible to have a sane mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_image

Another point is that even despite filmmakers, of all people, realizing that people also think in images, then it's probably just easier to use the "hearing of thoughts" method than "seeing the thoughts" method, as the former is cheaper, while the latter may sometimes require expensive means of post-production to visualise 'seeing' someone's thoughts. Think "Minority Report" and "Brainstorm" (1983).

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Saw a poster and that George Takei was in it, so got here.

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I was wondering the same thing. I haven't been able to find out anything about it online as to what the 'true story' was or what actually happened. This movie reminds of "Mothman Prophecies", in the way that is says it's based on a true story, they added things to it that didn't actually happen in real life.

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it's probably based on a true story just as the Texas Chainsaw masacre is based on a true story.

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