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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
> 
> 
>