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Dont watch this. Its the biggest pile of toss ever. Pointless to the end.

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Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:23 am
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Really? I liked it.

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Are you joking?

The troubled teenager had no point. His fights at school...what did they mean? They had no influence on the story.

The little girls character was even more pointless. What was her contribution other than showing that Mr Stalls character had another child?

The wife/husband relationship was warped. Even when she found out he was a nutbar, she seemed totally fine with it. Like thats believable.

A hitman-turned-family man in hiding wipes out a crime gang once his cover is blown. Thats all that happens. No plot.

The rampant sex sessions were the only things keeping me entertained, that, along with occasional fantasies over the wife. Who, may i say, is far too attractive for a mother of two.

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I agree with you that the storyline as such isn't very involving Derf, but the movie is a social commentary rather than entertainment An Sich.

It's about the thin line between murderer and hero, and how values and perception change depending of the context (war time? Peace?) The movie is questioning the true nature of man, highlighting the tension between nature and civilization. Etc. :)


It's typical Cronenberg. Not my favorite movie of all time by a long shot, but it was interesting.

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Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:25 am
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Such abstraction in all things, including art, just annoys me.

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Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:27 am
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Hehe, I'm not usually very perceptive to subtle hints either, you know. Being "ox the dumb strength" and all. :P But I thought the meaning of most of the movie was pretty clear...especially in view of the current state of affairs in the world. :)

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I thought hidden meaning is what launches a work of fiction from the mundane to the sublime?

a la Philip K Dick, George Orwell, and countless others we know and love.

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Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:38 am
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Yup...as long as it's not that obscure that you need to plow through half the world's literary history to understand wtf is going on. :roll: (cfr. Joyce)

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I wouldn't consider Orwell's meaning "hidden". He isn't very subtile in his message. ;)

And lol at Joyce. I still have to finish reading Ulysses, along with a manual.

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heh...that just makes you look REALLY smart...but pisses off everyone else, since it makes them feel dumb. :P

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If you thought Ulysses is bad, then how about some Finnegan's wake?

Quote:
Ohmes. This harmonic condenser enginium (the Mole) they
caused to be worked from a magazine battery (called the Mimmim
Bimbim patent number 1132, Thorpetersen and Synds, Joms-
borg, Selverbergen) which was tuned up by twintriodic singul-
valvulous pipelines (lackslipping along as if their liffing deepunded
on it) with a howdrocephalous enlargement, a gain control of
circumcentric megacycles ranging from the antidulibnium onto
the serostaatarean. They finally caused, or most leastways brung
it about somehows (that) the pip of the lin (to) pinnatrate inthro
an auricular forfickle (known as the Vakingfar sleeper, mono-
fractured by Piaras UaRhuamhaighaudhlug, tympan founder
Eustache Straight, Bauliaughacleeagh) a meatous conch culpable
of cunduncing Naul and Santry and the forty routs of Corthy
with the concertiums of the Brythyc Symmonds Guild, the
Ropemakers Reunion, the Variagated Peddlars Barringoy Bni-
brthirhd, the Askold Olegsonder Crowds of the O'Keef-Rosses
and Rhosso-Keevers of Zastwoking, the Ligue of Yahooth O.S.V.
so as to lall the bygone dozed they arborised around, up his
corpular fruent and down his reuctionary buckling, hummer,
enville and cstorrap (the man of Iren, thore's Curlymane for
you!), lill the lubberendth of his otological life.
House of call is all their evenbreads though its cartomance
hallucinate like an erection in the night the mummery of whose
deed, a lur of Nur, immerges a mirage in a merror, for it is where
by muzzinmessed for one watthour, bilaws below, till time jings
pleas, that host of a bottlefilled, the bulkily hulkwight, hunter's
pink of face, an orel orioled, is in.on a bout to be unbulging and
o'connell's, the true one, all seethic, a luckybock, pledge of the
stoup, whilom his canterberry bellseyes wink wickeding indtil
the teller, oyne of an oustman in skull of skand. Yet is it, this
ale of man, for him, our hubuljoynted, just a tug and a fistful as
for Culsen, the Patagoreyan, chieftain of chokanchuckers and his
moyety joyant, under the foamer dispensation when he pullupped
the turfeycork by the greats of gobble out of Lougk Neagk.
When, pressures be to our hoary frother, the pop gave his sullen
bulletaction and, bilge, sled a movement of catharic emulsipotion



Yeah, I'll say it before you do: WWWWWTTTTTFFFFF

I had to analyze 5 pages of that crock with a group of ppl once in uni. I think we got about 1/5th of the references and 0/0th of the meaning. :D Something tells me it might have been better to get stoned on opium before attempting to get to that shit. I think it'll suddenly make a lot more sense.

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We could write shit like that. With stuff like the internet and the Gutenberg library thing, I could write a novel using only quotes from early nineteenth century norwegian poets.

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Holy crap. At least you can just read Ulysses.

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