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I recently watched 'Pi' which is sort of a mathematics-fiction film. It has an interesting premise and the film itself is quite psychological and dare I say, hypnotic in some parts.
karan4496 said:I recently watched 'Pi' which is sort of a mathematics-fiction film. It has an interesting premise and the film itself is quite psychological and dare I say, hypnotic in some parts.
I've just seen this one - It was fantastic! And it had the most hilariously gruesome suicide scene I've ever seen.Ivan Seeking said:Another understated but absolutely charming, yet occasionally harsh film, The Bothersome Man - Norwegian, 2006
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Bandersnatch said:I've just seen this one - It was fantastic! And it had the most hilariously gruesome suicide scene I've ever seen.
So as to make a somewhat more constructive input: has anyone here seen Rollerball? The 70s version, not the horrendous 2000-ish remake.
Corporate totalitarian regime rules the whole world using the "bread and circuses" approach. Rollerball is a sport that fills the role of "circuses" here. The story follows one player, who begins to realize the extent to which the society have given up it's liberties.
Can't say it's less fitting a commentary on a society now, than it was back then.
For a flick with an invented, brutal sport at it's centre, it feels very subdued and subtle.
I liked "A Scanner Darkly" a great deal. However, I think it had one fantasy elements that disqualify it as a "hard" science fiction story.git67 said:a scanner darkly, IMHO blade runner was a much better book (do androids dream of electric sheep)
Darwin123 said:Or maybe not. Are there any real world analogs to this slowly changing disguise?
Threads was first commissioned by BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, after he watched the then banned 1965 documentary The War Game.[1] Mick Jackson was hired to direct the film, as he had previously worked in the nuclear apocalypse genre in 1982, producing the BBC Q.E.D. documentary A Guide to Armageddon. This was considered a breakthrough at the time, considering the previous banning of The War Game, which BBC staff believed would have resulted in mass suicides if aired.
Jackson later recalled that unlike most BBC productions, which once finished airing would immediately result in phone calls of congratulations from friends or colleagues, no such calls came after the first screening of Threads. Jackson later "realised... that people had just sat there thinking about it, in many cases not sleeping or being able to talk."
Bandersnatch said:Has anyone seen Europa Report yet?
Bandersnatch said:Has anyone seen Europa Report yet?
Borek said:Nor Sci Fi
I agree that it lingers. I disliked it when I saw it a few years back - felt it was too pretentious and archaic in form (what was it, a five minute scene of riding in a car silently?), and diverging too much from the source material. But some shots were just too well done to forget (e.g. the revival scene, the final shot), so it lodged itself in my mind and I've been thinking about it ever since, with my opinion on it gradually improving.Marco89 said:Just want to add some words about Solaris - I haven't read book and watched only Tarkovsky's movie, but it really made a significant impression on me. I watched it at an quite early age, but it forced me to rethink many things in my life.