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Don't know for sure, but looks like the first one only, with some characters and minor plot elements from the other two books (think I spotted Sophon, the giant stellar particle accelerator....). The Chinese series is 30 episodes long and only tackles the first book as well.
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry you had to live through this. Seems you've processed it and are well adjusted as an adult though, so that's good. I'm not saying one should whish to experience these kinds of ordeal, but I think they do make us better persons if we manage to live through them (mostly) unscathed: more compassionate, and more attuned to the complexity of human beings and their motives.
In Carrie's case, the poor kid also has to deal with an abusive single parent at home, on top of all the bullying at school. More than enough to push anyone over the edge. Also she seems mentally ill by the end of the film, she has paranoid delusions and this adds the complex question of legal insanity and mental competency to the mix.
I suppose the tragedy of real life is that she can (and probably is) BOTH a victim and a perpetrator (or a 'heroin' and a 'villain' as the OP puts it). Ideally we should be able to entertain both the antithetic ideas that she's to be pitied and worthy of compassion, and that she should be condemned and punished for her immoral acts, at the same time.
As Manzon's wife says in William Friedkin's 'Sorcerer': No one is "just" anything.
Now that's an interesting question and invitation to change perspective...
What do you think yourself ?
Skynet also updated the T-800 model to reduce the size of its jaw, add a self-awareness module that let's the T800 know when it is doing cool shit, and a built-in 'wound-but-don't-kill-people-and-then-later-pretend-you're-doing-so-because-a-10-year-old-brat-ordered-you-to'.
And Connery plays a Spaniard in the original film !
Congratulations! It was mine for going into baseball...
It's also a pretty honest poster, because that's precisely the level of cleverness and subtlety this show has to offer.
"The problem is that...."
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Oh, there's not just one "the problem". There are many. One of them is politics inviting itself in every single aspect of early 21st life. The name of this site is MOVIEchat.org, not POLITICSchat.org. And yet, the vast majority of posts seem to be about either politics or box-office considerations. Precious little cinema is discussed around here anymore (if there ever was).
Naw, friend, not really. I reckon most people's opinion on art don't really factor into my appreciation of it. Or my general well being. But it's awfully kind of you to ask.
You seem like a decent person and I thought it a shame you'd let a good movie pass you by on account of the common folk's lack of aesthetic sensitivity is all.
"Blackhat is agreed to be one of his worst films."
"Most people" probably agree that your mom is unimpressive and nothing special, yet she's most likely a wonderful and caring human being who raised you to become a decent person.
No offence meant, but when it comes to art what do you care about consensus or what other people agree on what the worst or best films are? Most people are film illiterate and wouldn't know a great film if it bit them in the arse...
'Blackhat' is arguably much better than 'Public Enemies' and certainly no worse than the 'The Keep'. At any rate it's leagues above most of what came out in 2015 (or that decade).
Also opening sequence of pictures of dead bodies being taken is straight out of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.... too many unsubtle ripping off of very famous sequences.
Oh, I'm always here. I've always been here (ever since I got passed over for that gig in a Colorado hotel by that prick writer with a wife and kid in the 80's...).
Anyways, I've been accused of worse things. God bless you my good Sir (or Madam).
Check her out in Abel Ferrara's vampire flick "The Addiction" (1995) she makes a terrific lead.
but we know that Daniel's an unreliable witness, changing his mind often, probably making things up as well, and imagining things (the film frequently shows us back-flash type sequences of what he imagined went on, based on the trial hearings)....
It's precisely what an ideology does: it puts "things" in a certain "way" so that you can't not see it that particular way.
Can't it be that they're both right, in that they both have valid and legitimate claims that just happen to be in conflict with each other (because different people at different ages and with different responsibilities want and need different things)?
So that even though the film is told from Paul's point view, we see Paul from Angus' point of view (who can never tell which eye is his good one). This or it's just a joke. A funny one, I find.
Oh yeah ! But more than that, Borgnine could also do what not that many actors manage to pull off: play a deranged, mean son of a bitch who does the wrong things for the right reasons and that you end up feeling sorry for at the end of the film (see John Trent's excellent 1974 film 'A Sunday in the Country').
That fine line where non-cartoonish, believable monsters dwell, who at the same time are touching and therefore almost (but not quite) redeemable...
De Niro pulled that off recently in The Irishman.
"Is Bill and Alice’s problem their godless marriage?"
Bill & Alice's (but mostly Bill's) problem is that they thought of themselves as successful, wealthy (film's first line of dialogue: "Honey, have you seen my wallet?"), people of status ("it's OK, I'm a doctor"), who have no qualms about throwing money around to get what they want (after hour access to a closed shop, information about a customer from a waitress...), mopping up after their rich friends (passed out prostitute at Ziegler's), exploiting less fortunate people (Domino), patronising others, etc. and then realise there is a class of people way wealthier, more influent and even less reluctant to exploit people (including people such as Bill & Alice). They're not top of the food chain anymore. They learn what it means to have limits imposed onto them and be exploited by the powerful.
You Sir, or Madam, make entirely too much sense and display way too much common sense and maturity to have anything to do on these boards.