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Chao ji de wo (2019)
Literal Starving Writer
Screenwriters make the movies & the creative process is still a mystery.
Barton Fink comes to mind as another of those process/wierd slice of life
about a screen writer movies.
This has a much more fantastical element in it. THe premise about a "dream guardian" is an interesting point. How many times have you awoken holding that treasure from the dream & it just evaporates as full consciousness returns.
I like the imagery of the fish in the bowl & later of the fish all alone in the huge tank by itself. Several themes running through this flic & musing on the ideas with repeated viewings seems worthwhile imo.
Curious about the bad guys saying they are checks to 'correct' your world view
& how violence will always shadow existence like breathing needed
worth checking out. Be interesting to see Nightmare on elm street see how much this has taken from it in a back to back session.
Higher Power (2018)
Dr Manhattan revealed
Tasty SciFi candy in an unobtrusive tidy package that pays homage to other snacks & goodies from Kubrick, to Moore to Besson & Iwata.
Hats off to Ms Fair & Mr Santoro. Worth a viewing by longtime fans & perhaps a review of other preceding Scifi greats to observe the growth of ideas progressing & converging. Many tropes across the spectrum served up in a well paced gem of a film. Recommended (& any of the others work too btw)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
Too much disinformation & Irrational opinion stated as fact
I contrast "Into The Inferno" which came out in 2016 with this dreck.
It seems a poor attempt to explain the "internet" to your grandparent who remembers radio as a new fangled thing. By picking a conspiracist talking points to demonize new technology.
Granted technology has ripped from 1996 to now & first world countries are 'benefiting first. The tech is not absolute & totally world wide. Science & tech are used for well being & also for war. Beneficial applications of tech will help everyone. Look at drone delivered medicine in parts of Africa. Best practices for farming in provincial India presented by radio to help farmers production. Local bio gas facilities to provide cooking gas & by products for remote farming villages
Wealthy people calling a tech "evil" because of poor & morbid judgement of rescue personnel as a condemnation of the entire global network is incorrect.
If it bleeds .... Yeah, well I skip those stories.
Humans are everything under the sun. Treat others as you wish to be treated.
When 'we' stop exploiting the other someday, the world may live as 1.
Future Shock was released in 1972, Koyaanisqatsi 1982 & companion films
These are a better glimpses of change then this 'documentary' .
2036 Origin Unknown (2018)
Derivative, trite & good cgi
Stolen ideas from 2001 & mish mash of current AI tropes.
I prefer Keith Laumers' BOLO-verse vs Saberhangens' Berserkers although,
given that competitiveness breeds successful lifeforms that tend to murderous
pursuits, I hope compassion will prevail over 'winning'.
I just read an article by Kalev Leetaru who was making a point of some AI fallacies & this movie does an excellent illustration of how instantaneously AI
can globally end it from poor instructions.
this is the complete example of
GIGO
Perfect Creature (2006)
SteamPunk on the Big Screen
Best steampunk alter/verse I have viewed.
Vampires choose to coexist & take over/are the church & secretly pull the strings from the shadows.
Reproduction rates have fallen off & the vamps 'research' a method to create
replacement vamps to 'balance' future viability vs humankind.
Problems ensue when the chief vampiric researcher runs amok & begins to
murder humans for blood meals. Several tropes are upended & applied in creative fashions. I hoped to see the second movie to follow up on the premises
of a very original steampunk alterverse vampire flick. Just as fun as "Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" perhaps more so