[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:32:17 -0400

Andy Amago wrote:


> Thanks, Steve.  I will also put it on my list.  This weekend I have
> Logan's Run.  I came across it in a discussion on the ethics of
> voluntary suicide.  Since I missed it in the 70's, I thought it might
> be a fun movie.  I haven't done a sci-fi on my 65 inch TV yet.  I'm
> looking forward to it.  Thanks for the suggestion.
> 

**You will probably enjoy it, though it's often quite dark and somewhat 
frightening in both its content and its intimations. As with Fahrenheit 
451, it's hoped we never progress?? (regress??) to that degree...

TC,

/Steve Cameron, NJ


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> Andy
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> TC,
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> /Steve Cameron, NJ
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> Andy Amago wrote:
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx> Sent:
>> Oct 18, 2004 1:57 AM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject:
>> [lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions
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>> 
>> Le 17 oct. 04, =E0 23:36, Ursula Stange a =E9crit :
>> 
>> M.C. I'd suggest Waking Life, Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the
>> Spotless=20=
>> 
>> mind, Inside John Malcovich, My Dinner with Andr=E9, Sliding Doors
>> 
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>> 
>> A.A.  When I watched the Matrix, my philistine self saw a high tech
>> bang-bang-shoot-em-up-love-will-save-us action fillm.  In thinking
>> back on it, the images were ostensibly generated by computer and
>> projected somehow into people's minds.  Okay, I'll buy it, brain in
>> a vat.  The original Manchurian Candidate had a variation on the
>> same theme.  Korean War POW's are brainwashed with sophisticated
>> techniques to believe they are somewhere else and are in fact
>> controlled by outside forces.  Frank Sinatra fights to save the
>> vets, as do the Matricians who fight against the evil computer.  My
>> problem is that I think both movies are more about the indomitable
>> human spirit than Cartesian what if-ness.  In both movies, the ol
>> brain in the head prevails.  I go by the maxim that if it's peddled
>> as philosophy for mass appeal, then the movie mostly likely stinks.
>> But then I'm a self-diagnosed non-recovering philistine.
>> 
>> I did like John Malcovich, with the different layers of reality (if
>> I recall) and will put the others on my Netflix list.
>> 
>> 
>> Andy
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>>> <snip>
>>> 
>>> Working on multiple choice at the moment. The question I wrote
>>> just=20 now:
>>> 
>>> Plotinus declared that the purpose of life was a. for the soul to
>>> reunite with =91the One=94 b. to find tranquility and mental ease
>>>  c. to get as much pleasure as possible d. to forge a meaning of
>>> life for yourself e. to follow the prime directive
>> 
>> 
>> M.C. And the answer is........?
>> 
>> Michael Chase (goya@xxxxxxxxxxx) CNRS UPR 76 7, rue Guy Moquet 
>> Villejuif 94801 France
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