Impressive, cool, awe-inspiring.
But I'm very resistant to media that wants to impress me with the technology of cool.
And while we are all rightly concerned about those who would manipulate us through fear, I'm becoming increasingly concerned about those who would harness my awe for unclear (or clearly techno-utopian) ends.
So it falls on the wrong side of the science edutainment line for me.
Finally reached the end of Phase Can't Be Bothered to Look It Up on the watch-through with the 14yo, who is on his first time through. My wife swears we didn't see this in the theater (I know we did), but then we both ed she slept through it. High praise! (She liked it this time.)
At this point, the Enforced Enjoyment Entertainment Complex had found its groove, and the film balances a dozen stories, one liners offsetting action, and…
Second viewing confirms this is among the handful of films I'd consider my all-time favorites. Everything I want in a film is here. (Well, I could use a chase scene with a car explosion, I guess.)
What's the movie about? It's about an hour and forty-five minutes.
An hour and forty-five minutes of dizzying, glorious, beautiful starts and stops, ideas and emotions, reality and fiction, truth and lies, beauty and deceit. AK demands our attention, but doesn't mind if we…
