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|    Re: Silent Running (USA) 1972    |
|    24 Apr 22 23:35:22    |
      e52eedcd       From: ggggg9271@gmail.com              On Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 5:01:06 PM UTC-10, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:       > Hey,       > Is Joan Baez the kiss of death to this flick or what? The premise of       > this flick makes little sense and that's not always a deal breaker in       > a sci-fi film. In this case, the real problem is making Freeman (get       > it?) Lowell (Bruce Dern) likable and sane. To make him the whackjob he       > actually should be would undermine the eco-message that is rather       > heavily handled. When you have Joan Baez sing about innocent children       > as a soundtrack to a suicidal nuclear explosion, something is deeply       > and profoundly bent in how this film presents itself. The basic gist       > seems to be: We are HAL. Not surprising that the director -- Douglas       > Trumbull -- worked with Stanley Kubrick on "2001: A Space Odyssey."       > Good -- if misdirected -- work by Dern in a film that never defines       > itself from the confusion that seems to drive it. It may be a seminal       > work in that it inspired many others but I found it to be a unhinged       > metaphor banging against hollow wood.       > William              https://gizmodo.com/50-years-later-silent-running-is-more-releva       t-than-ev-1848638632              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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