Anyone have the opening monologue?
Can someone post the opening monologue of the movie? It's where Astin narrates over the slo-mo pool scenes on the basics of time, four-dimensions, and all that. The imagery and words were perfectly poetic!
shareI'll post it if I get around to it. I loved the monolog, and I thought, wow, this is a smart movie for a change. How wrong I was... this was the most plot hole-riddled, ill-conceived and non-funny piece of film I've seen in a long time. Time travel stories are hard to do right, granted, but the makers of Slipstream just screwed up on every single turn. I liked the soundtrack and some of the visuals, but that's about it. Oh wait, this is turning into a review, gotta stop...
shareWow, this has been a long time. Rotten tomatoes aside, has anyone gotten the monologue yet?
Here's part of it:
"Life is in four-dimensions, take away time and....[missing big chunk of physics/philosophical speechifying].... you don't have has been or will be, just one long uninterrupted is."
Where's the rest of it!
Here ya go:
"Life happens in four dimensions. Subtract time from the equation, and all you're left with is space. No motion; no change. Take away time, and you change everything we know, everything we believe, everything we understand. Imagine a stopped clock: there would be no rush hour. No more rushing to get there because you could never be late. There would be no birth, death, broken hearts. Summer vacations would never end. You could never lose a job; your wife could never leave you. There would be no crime, no war. Nothing new of any kind. Nothing old. No will be, no want-to-be, no has been. Just one...long...uninterrupted..."is". It's hard to imagine because all we know, or all we think we know, is that time passes. We are taught it from the cradle to the grave, that time waits for no man.
A hundred years of frantic human invention have created an unseen network of connection between us. Streams of electrical energy: radio waves, microwaves, light waves, cell phones, PDAs, TV, wireless networks, remotes, garage door openers, you name it. You've heard of the World Wide Web? Well you're the fly that just got stuck in it.
Time does not exist as we know it. Even the universe is not what it appears to be. Because it takes the light from those distant stars millions of years to get here, you're seeing into the past, gazing out at a galaxy that might not even be there anymore. You're not looking at the night sky; you're staring into the heart of a time machine."
Then it launches into the opening credits, and there you have it ;)
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