Why did I rent this movie??-Tim Burton wannabe?? + political rant

I've lived in Canada, and I have plenty of friends and many close relatives in the UK. Yes, you have to wait for some NON TIME SENSITIVE surgeries. But if something is time sensitive LIKE A CANCEROUS TUMOR then it takes precedence and you get the surgery much more quickly. Because other non time sensitive needs are put off for the time sensitive ones.
Life expectancy is HIGHER in countries with socialized medicine than it is in the US.

Tim burton is a wanabe when you compare his movies to this.
And danny elfman, being reat composer as he is, just does not fit the mood this movie was trying to accomplish.

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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.

The UK health care system is probably very similar to the NZ system - a mix of private/public care where if public hospitals can't cope with waiting lists, then they pay private hospitals to take on patients.

The more urgent and life threatening your illness is, the higher up you are on the list. It would be entirely reasonable to have surgery within a week if doctors believed you would not survive without having it immediately....however, if you were referred by your GP (instead of being rushed directly to hospital after fainting), I don't know how long the wait could be to see the specialist and get your results.

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer by an NHS cancer specialist and was successfully operated on six days later. The fact is, despite what your right wing media tells you, if you need urgently need treatment on the NHS you will get it, sometimes through a private care provider if your case is deemed a matter serious enough.

So please don't come on here putting down another country that you have no knowledge of. And last time I checked every European state had "socialised medicine" (using correct British English there, LOL) so why pick on the UK?

It's not as if the American health care system is perfect of is it? You are the richest country in the world yet:

01 - You have by far the lowest ratio of GP (general practitioner doctors, not sure if that needs Americanising) per head of population which leads to late diagnosing of illnesses and referral for treatment, which probably has something to do with...

02 - ...The U.S.A. having by far the highest death rate from preventable illness in the developed world.

03 - The highest infant mortality rate in the developed world.

You said:

"I remember sometime in the early 2000s (?) when a high-ranking member of the Canadian Parliament (and close friend of Hillary Clinton) came south of the border to have major surgery done. Why not do it in Canada; after all, your taxes pay for it, no????"

So the fact that 10 years ago a Canadian politician had major surgery in the U.S.A. is proof that socilised medicine doesn't work? How exactly do you work that one out? As an example say you were told you're probably going to die of cancer but there's a experimental treatment available in, say, Canada which may prolong your life. Surely you would be "north of the border" to receive that life extending treatment ASAP whether you'd paid into your countries health care system or not?









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Also - YEARS for surgery? Jesus what kind of hellhole do you think we're living in.

Tim Burton was not actually the first with this style. He was influenced by German Expressionism, as the director of this kind of was and...the director of bizarre music videos like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrbMPSMmzs

Now for anyone who wants to watch a German Expressionist film to see where this style came from. Below this paragraph is a link to The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, of all that I've seen, the film that adopts this style the most

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg73BUxJLI

Overall I would call the people influenced by this (Stobe Harju, Tim Burton, Dave McKean) to be expressionist directors.

"If you don't like your ideas, stop having them!"

"I'm pretty sure that under England's socialized medicine, you'd be waiting a good long time for surgery, as in months or even years. " Yeah, it makes perfect sense they would wait months or YEARS to remove a tumor. Are you for real?

Listen I'm not British but I KNOW this. In the system of socialized medicine there's a scale of priority. Cancers and tumors are given VERY HIGH PRIORITY and are remedied IMMEDIATELY. Overweight people wanting to have a reduction of their stomach are given a lower priority.

Seriously, what reality do you live in?? Another ignorant yank, or perhaps a troll.

"This movie should have been made by the king of surreal." You're the king of the surreal on imdb - and that's saying something.

"I remember sometime in the early 2000s (?) when a high-ranking member of the Canadian Parliament (and close friend of Hillary Clinton) came south of the border to have major surgery done. Why not do it in Canada; after all, your taxes pay for it, no???? " And HOW is this IMPORTANT or RELATES to this movie??? You just looked for an excuse to spew your inane bile. Nutjob.

And how correct my assessment turned out to be. You learn to recognize the kind depending on what they write. Browsing through OP's comments it seems he's a geriatric fool putting a "leftists are bad" slant on EVERYTHING (talk about pathetic obsession) and not discussing movies themselves at all. Fortunately time is ticking for you. Tick tock, tick tock. Shouldn't you have more important things to do in life at that age??