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Shall We Dance
John Clark is a man with a wonderful job, a charming wife and a loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his commute home, John sees a beautiful woman, staring with a lost expression through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for dance lessons, hoping to meet her.
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The Prequels Phenomenon
The past several months, we’ve seen the proliferation of Hollywood movies that are prequels of movies already shown in the past. We have the really well-made and well-casted Startrek which tells us the back stories of the now legendary James Kirk, Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Spock. We also have the X Men Origins series that begins with Wolverine’s story. They will have a series of X Men Origins movies that will tell us the back stories of Jean Gray, Cyclops, and probably even Professor Xavier. A few years back, we had the Batman Franchise rebooting with Batman Begins.
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Sequels You Probably Didn’t Know About
Here’s something I got from DenofGeek. Some of the movies here are really good, and I so look forward to watching them, while some just makes me go, “Hmmm…?!”
The domination of sequels in the big summer and winter schedules continues, and if the following — in particular order — is anything to go by, it’s going to carry on for many years to come…
The Brazilian Job: the follow up to Paramount’s US remake of The Italian Job is still on the cards, and it’s got a 2009 release date marked. Jason Statham, …
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The Gospel According to the Matrix
The Matrix has been called by some moviegoers as a modern-day rendition of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. We notice for example the different binary opposing themes found in both the film and the Allegory: appearance/reality, dream/wakefulness, shadows/forms, virtual reality/actual reality. Similar to the Allegory of the Cave, the basic question of the Matrix is: what if what I think of as the real world is not really real? What if I am in “a cave”? Or more specifically in the movie: “How do I know that this world I’m living in, is the real world and not a virtual reality program created by artificial intelligence?”
Which also sounds like Descartes problem in Meditations on First Philosophy. How do I know that I am not just dreaming? That I am not a fool imagining all this in my mind? How do I know that I am not being deceived? And a more fundamental question: of what can I be certain about? Where can I find the ground of certitude?
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I Am Legend — The Bob Marley Scene
“The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off, how can I?
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