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Animal Farm was an allegory about communism, so it's hardly left wing propaganda.It's kind of scary to me that anyone would assume any highlight of the use of propaganda by governments was 'leftie' or 'rightie' propaganda- how can drwing attention to the use of propaganda by the powerful in general, itself be propaganda?
Also, gay stuff and racial stuff isn't leftie stuff, neither is 'white men are bad' - left wing politics are about generally recognising the contribution of the workforce to the prosperity of a nation and that the workforce should share in that prosperity and not be exploited by the richer/ruling class who milks their hard work for their own gain. I mean, there are wild variations on it, but that's the basic theme. It' not about being gay or straight or white or whatever. You might be thinking of social liberalism, i.e. the belief that people should generally be free to live their lives as they wish as long as they aren't hurting anybody, whatever their race, religion, gender, sexuality etc. Which is not the same as economic liberalism which is traditionally more right wing - i.e. in very basic terms, let the market dictate everything, let businesses be free to profit however they wish.
I see lots of people getting confused about these things. Anyway, I don't think that the introduction of a gay character and a black character means anything like what you're suggesting, and it's kinda weird to think that, as though the introduction of gay people and black people somehow means they're going to put across the message white men are bad? That seems like some serious projection on your part.
Yeah I wondered this too, and I came to the conclusion that it must be that the stack interfaces with the biological brain in such a way that it controls the brain and takes over its functions, but it is not actually affected itself by the brain, so if something goes wrong with the biological brain, the stack would remain intact. Perhaps people don't even get diseases like alzheimers in this world because the stack does all the memories and everything, the brain is just used for motor control and sensory input and output? So if the brain started getting diseased or whatever, it would just mean the stack couldn't take down more memories, but once the body died, the stack could be put in another body and the person would remember whatever was the last memory they managed to put down before the brain was corrupted?
Yeah, all I could think at the end when he pulls her out of the water was that she just didn't love him enough. He wasn't enough for her, in any way. Not enough to make a life with, not enough to keep herself alive so that he wouldn't be left completely and terrifyingly alone. She just didn't really love him and that's why it ended the way it did. Perhaps because she had other family etc. It was horrible when she got that email and was so anticipating it could be from someone else, but seeing it was from him, it was almsot like she was like 'Oh great, this jerk is all I have to look forward to for the rest of forever.' Even though he was trying to be sweet and positive.
And then leaving him all those pictures of herself before going off to end her life, that was just cruel. I didn't get why she dud that - here, remember me with these, or see? you loved me way more than I loved you, hopefully you can now understand why I can't bear the thought of living with just you for the rest of my life. Bye! Ugh.
All of the events of the movie, and in fact all events in our universe, are 'happening' simultaneously. What changes is where your consciousness is. Consciousness is experiencing moment by moment within the person, as though jumping from picture to picture in a comic book, but the story is written out beforehand. So when Cooper is in Murph's bedroom about to leave, his sentient conscious experience is existing within that moment, but because all of time occurs simultaneously and the linearity is just an illusion, the Cooper that's poking the books onto the floor from the tesseract is not simultaneously conscious with the Cooper in the bedroom. So while time is not linear, it is consciousness that experiences time in a linear fashion. The tesseract kind of represents this, with all the different moments of Murph's bedroom and Cooper jumping about between them.
This is how the paradox is avoided and how it is that the entire story is 'pre-written' as BB-15 says.
This really annoyed me. It was obvious from the way they cut away from Walter about to punch David (therefore not showing what actually happened) and then 'Walter' was suddenly on the ship and despite having been shown minutes earlier that he can regenerate injuries (on his head and neck at least) we see that this 'Walter' has injuries on his face, making it obvious it was actually David, which begged the interesting question - what happened?
Walter had the upper hand, was about to smash David's face to a pulp, he was the newer, stronger, regenerating model, so how did David defeat him and take his place? Given that the last thing David says to Walter was 'are you going to choose them over me, serve in heaven or reign in hell' type thing, it made it seem like Walter had chosen to go along with David's plan or had let David take off with the ship or something, or had sat around to ponder his options long enough to let David reverse the situation. Which would have been a interesting decision/character development for Walter worth seeing. Really annoying as it seemed to take some interesting themes and ideas about AI's relationship to humans, creatures' relationships with their creators, consciousness, love, hate, good and evil, that were kind of expressed a little in David's ramblings, and then just ignored all that for an obvious, trite, tired, cliche plot twisty evil-good guy switcheroo. Annoying.
They don't fake it all, they just use some effects to cover up the UFOs. That's why so many people are convinced the moon landings were faked while others are so convinced it was real - because it was both. They went to the moon but they had to re-do some of the footage on a set on Earth because the real footage showed what is actually up there and they didn't want the public knowing about it. The original footage got destroyed, conveniently. I think that came out recently that they'd recorded over it. And it's infamous, the number of times the live footage from the ISS cuts out shortly after a UFO appears, there is tons of footage out there from the ISS that shows UFOs - you know, objects in the distance in space that are speeding up, slowing down, changing direction etc (i.e. impossible that it's just debris or 'ice crystals' or whatever).
Same as in our world pretty much.