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Yeah, they made a few mistakes. But its understandable under the conditions (e.g. hunger, lack of sleep, fear, anxiety, death looming at every step, weirdness of empty battlegrounds and abandoned German trenches & equipment, dead rotting bodies everywhere, etc).
If it was me, I would have simply shot that crashed pilot in the head as soon as I figured out he was the enemy. With the urgency of my mission, I would have had no time, energy, or motivation for escorting prisoners through enemy territory.
Roger had to utter one-liners that were far worse.
That's because its difficult to do right, expensive, and still might not look good or convincing. And doesn't improve the story, either.
My take is: he liked being human but he couldn't fully immerse himself in the experience if he knew he was a god. So he simply made himself forget.
Bale dropped an F bomb during a heated scene (with a Ford exec, I think ?).
That was Tony's character arc. He starts out racist (mostly likely reflective of the institutional socially-required racism of the era). Then for the rest of the film, he witnesses firsthand how badly black people are treated across the country, even if they're educated, rich, and famous.
It was like: "We'll roll out the red carpet for you, smile and flatter you, and let you entertain us, but in no way are you good enough to eat with us, or have a drink in our bars, or use our bathrooms, or try on a suit without buying it first, or stay at our hotels, or drive on our roads, or drink from our fountains."
By the end of the film, Tony's views and perspectives have changed. He had witnessed all the hypocrisy and two-faced-ness behind the white people's "politeness" to Doc. That's why Tony invites Doc to eat Christmas dinner with him and his family.
<blockquote>Hell, why they even have arms implanted with guns if you can simply kill people with a sneeze. That's just ridiculously over the top.</blockquote>
The Sneeze trick seems to take some time (5 -10 secs?) to kill the target. So the gun implants would still be handy if you need something quicker.
But the sneeze sequence should have been cut from the film. It wasn't needed and opened up other implications and possibilities that the film didn't have time to explore.
It would be interesting to watch Grey figure out he's actually trapped in a fantasy inside his own head, and is not in the real world.
I too found the single repetitive note to be jarring, discordant, and disturbing and I wanted it to end. But yet somehow I found the music was fitting to the scenes where it was used. It emoted claustrophobia and I felt I just wanted to escape - probably like Anne felt, too.
The majority of the film takes place in the palace, either in Anne's bedroom or in the court chambers. Anne is trapped in a life/role she is not suited for, in a building she can't escape, and in a body that is failing and racked with pain. Plus she is bored out of her mind, and likely has some psychological issues to deal with, as well. So that simple one note score seemed to exemplify and emphasize Anne's despair, torment, helplessness, etc. The score isn't pleasant but its effective.
I guess the main purpose of any film score is not to provide nice music to help us pass time while watching the movie. But instead to further under-score what's being communicated in the scenes themselves.
The scene was all Sarah's nightmare - the same one she's been having for years because she's knows for a fact that its going to happen for real. Why should the director whitewash the horrors of a nuclear holocaust when it's the one single fear and dread of this that haunts Sarah and drives her character arc? The threat of nuclear annihilation should always be in the back of our minds, especially if we're gonna elect lunatic leaders who publicly ponder questions like "What's the point of having nuclear weapons if we can't use 'em?".
The movie is rated R and is not for delicate little tulips. You should stick to Disney movies.
The witch wanted Tommy to kill the cat, which belonged to his cherished dead wife, in order to put more emotional trauma on him. Same thing with the son’s girlfriend. Everything that happened (whether halucinations or not) was engineered by the witch for her ultimate goal: to be restored back to life again.
A Dark Place
No, I think he was crazy but pretending to be normal the whole time. If you remember, right after he arrived, they were all in the kitchen listening to a Dionne Warwick song on the radio. He was singing along non-chalantly but kept glancing nervously at the 3 birds in the birdcage. Yes, he was non-chalantly anxious.
Then we find out at the end that birds can detect and warn people when the “things” are near. So either (1) he was afraid the birds would give him away, or (2) he was watching the birds for clues that the things had arrived so he could tear the newspaper off the windows and start "recruiting".
It would be difficult to be insanely rich and powerful, and yet still be anonymous and live off the grid flying under the government's radar. She valued her privacy much more than becoming a God and attracting attention. As it was, business was booming and she was making very good money. Getting paid with stacks of tax free 100 dollar bills for a few minutes of work is hardly petty cash.
[quote]She then comes again for another job, a cop is killed and then disappears again without a trace. Why weren't other cops there, why aren't any surveillance cameras in the building or on the street, that could track her? [/quote]
Again, over-reliance on the system seems to have caused complacency and softening of police skills. The cops literally don't seem to know how to do anything except use the system. And I suppose building and street surveillance cameras have become irrelevant and obsolete because everyone carries around their own cameras: their eyes.
[quote]Well it's a big thing for me, and it bothers me because it doesn't make much sense. The girl comes to Sal, does her job, and then leaves and no one knows where she is... How is this even possible, couldn't the police at least follow her on foot to see where she lives? She was a murder suspect after all... [/quote]
The movie's premise is that, because of the system, there are no longer any murders or even crime in society. That's because there's no personal privacy anymore and every second of everyone's life is recorded using their eyes (POV). The system allows police to instantly view any period of anyone's entire life they choose. So I surmised that the police have become completely reliant on the system and, over the years (decades?), have steadily lost their crime-solving and detective skills.
Moving your family to live by the river would require you to build a house ... by the river. Try doing that quietly. So living in a house that already exists, even though its away from the river, is probably a better move.
Name a thriller, any thriller, that wasn't accused of having potholes. Or a thriller that solved problems the way you would have.
I think you're missing something. While Cryonics exists today and many people are already cryogenically frozen, "Lucid Dream" does NOT exist, and is not supposed to exist yet. Lucid Dreaming does not happen right after you are cryo-frozen today. Instead, it only happens far in the distant future after resurrection and dream technology have been developed. At that point, if you had chosen the Lucid Dream option, you would get thawed out and cured but kept asleep to dream about the centuries-old world you left behind. That is, until you decide you want to wake up and live in the real world.
But if you had declined the Lucid Dream option, you would simply get thawed, cured, and woken up to live your life in the real world.
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If so, hopefully Sofia was smart enough to decline the "Lucid Nightmare" option.