I see that the double standards are still alive and kicking.
Fucking nausea.
This is exactly why I didn't pursue charges when I was date raped. Thank you, various thread contributors, for confirming my doubts.
(And thank you, various other contributors, for confirming that other people have those doubts, and that empathy, as well.)
On a completely different note, I recently picked up a copy of Equilibrium the day after I saw it on cable... a thoroughly irresponsible purchase on my part, seeing as I am now without any cash for another pouch of NAS organic. Worth it, tho.
For the life of me I can't see why people compare it to The Matrix. There's no wire fighting, and the look owes more to Dark City and The Crow than to TM. The costumes are hardly derivative, either, except that they're probably familiar to any Catholic that's seen a Deacon or a Bishop. (And half of Neo's clothes could be bought through International Male.... I owned one of those black weave shirts a year before the film went into production.)
What surprised me was that people who reviewed the film at Amazon -- the only place that I looked for user reviews -- completely missed the theological aspects of the film. Father wasn't Big Brother rehashed, he was a secular version of god. I mean, who else would head a governement known as the Tetragrammaton?
Okay, so that was a somewhat obscure reference. But the theological implications of naming a government after the four-letter name of god is a pretty clear statement of what it's intended to represent.
The movie has its flaws; it's by no means a masterpiece. But Bale's portrayal of emotional awakening is, alone, a reason to watch. It's quite surprising work for a relatively low-budget film.
Fucking nausea.
This is exactly why I didn't pursue charges when I was date raped. Thank you, various thread contributors, for confirming my doubts.
(And thank you, various other contributors, for confirming that other people have those doubts, and that empathy, as well.)
On a completely different note, I recently picked up a copy of Equilibrium the day after I saw it on cable... a thoroughly irresponsible purchase on my part, seeing as I am now without any cash for another pouch of NAS organic. Worth it, tho.
For the life of me I can't see why people compare it to The Matrix. There's no wire fighting, and the look owes more to Dark City and The Crow than to TM. The costumes are hardly derivative, either, except that they're probably familiar to any Catholic that's seen a Deacon or a Bishop. (And half of Neo's clothes could be bought through International Male.... I owned one of those black weave shirts a year before the film went into production.)
What surprised me was that people who reviewed the film at Amazon -- the only place that I looked for user reviews -- completely missed the theological aspects of the film. Father wasn't Big Brother rehashed, he was a secular version of god. I mean, who else would head a governement known as the Tetragrammaton?
Okay, so that was a somewhat obscure reference. But the theological implications of naming a government after the four-letter name of god is a pretty clear statement of what it's intended to represent.
The movie has its flaws; it's by no means a masterpiece. But Bale's portrayal of emotional awakening is, alone, a reason to watch. It's quite surprising work for a relatively low-budget film.