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reprogramming your love life....

posted 12 years ago by stazza
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k, just watched some of this again on blu-ray and it occurred to me that when they discovered it recorded "feelings", they also discovered it ALTERED them as well. Walken left the room in a huff after getting intense feelings from his ex wife's negative recording... then goes home, watches more of it, and picks up the good stuff - it makes him LOVE HER all over again. It reprograms him.

Then, he proceeds to record his own feel goodys, plays that into her and both of them suddenly love each other again.

Right or wrong it was one thing to watch it like it made them FEEL something, it is another thing to realize that MAYBE those feelings reprogrammed them unintentionally.

Am I right?

[–] tad-32 11 years ago

Not reprogrammed, just gave each other the empathy they had lost when they had withdrawn from each other. They had seen themselves through the eyes of the other...at their worst and at their best...and came to regret the worst and re-embrace the best. As Karen says "I was afraid you didn't like me anymore.". His tape to her proved that was not the case in a way that words could not share. It's an example of the power of technology to heal us, to make us better...regardless of what the 'tard science deniers say.

[–] Murr 10 years ago

You are right, it did "reprogram" them, but reprogramming someone is not strange or unusual, and doesn't even require technology. For example, when you teach someone something and they learn it, they are reprogrammed. When you convince someone of something and change their mind, they are reprogrammed. By reading my words, you are in some way reprogrammed. I think the technology in this film was new way to communicate. Michael loved his wife again because of what he learned, but the machine didn't inadvertantly reprogram him.