SUO: RE: 3D / 4D
I remember seeing this movie many years ago, and you're right;
this movie illustrates the importance of normal context
processing in a very clear way. Programs, being far more
literal than us, are comparable to the main character in that
they never understand the full context.
But the movie describes a damaged person. Actually, all
of us have limits on the context we can carry. We make
us of cribs and memory aids, just in a less dramatic way
than the main character.
Good example.
Rich
Robert Spillers wrote:
> Regarding 3D / 4D. There is a film "Memento" that offers
> some insight
> into the malleability of memory and time. At first the plot seems a
> take off on the old TV series / movie "The Fugitive" but
> turns out very
> differently. The main character's wife was murdered by
> intruders and in
> a fight with the intruders he suffers brain damage that
> results in his
> inability to make any new memories - beyond approximately 15
> minutes at
> a time which he then forgets.
>
> His memory of events before the attack is intact. Every
> morning when he
> wakes up and periodically throughout the day, he has to
> figure out where
> he is and what is happening in his life. In one scene he suddenly
> realizes he is running on a street, sees another man running
> and thinks
> he is chasing the man. Then the man fires several shots at
> him and he
> realizes he is being chased. He devises aids to help him extend his
> memory over time - e.g. Polaroid pictures that he annotates and
> randomly reorders. For more persistent memory he uses tattoos. Of
> course, there is of the problem of context.
>
> There are scenes where something happens and the viewer
> interprets the
> scene, then one sees what happened immediately before this scene that
> allows one to interpret it in a way the main character
> cannot. The film
> has alternating scenes in color and in black and white - the
> color moves
> forward in time, the black and white moves backward in time.
> They are
> joined in the first scene which is the first/last scene of the
> narrative. This is an intricate and deliberately confusing
> film. There
> are several web sites that are devoted to interpreting the
> meaning (and
> solving the mystery) of the film. The mystery is not
> resolved (at least
> to most viewers) in the film.
>
> Its no longer in the theaters but is available to rent - I strongly
> recommend DVD vs video tape.
>
> Bob
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