
2005.10.13 • 05:29 • 0 com
Powerfull drama about child sexual abuse, on par with Mystic River and Capturing the Friedmans, and as disturbing as those. It has also some very good insighs on the nature of homossexuality and alien abduction frenzy. Was the boy already homossexual when he was abused, as his memories make us thing, or is it similar to the other boy's creating the alien thing to deal with it? I have a friend who is a homossexual and a good buddhist practicioner, and he understands everything about things not having an inherent nature, but anyway, sometimes he talks as he belives homossexuality has inherent existence. Of course this is a delicate subject, because in this case "not having a choice" is what makes us think about homossexuality as a non-moral matter (and this is a way to avoid judgement). But in the buddhist view we always have some kind of choice, although most of the time karma compells us. I believe buddhism has the view that heterossexuality or homossexuality are karmic inclinations, not permanent, and that they sometimes do have a moral implication1, although it is mostly irrelevant where you attachment lies, since it is attachment.
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1. ^ I mean that in certain particular circunstances it can be nonvirtuous to just follow our impulses be they "straight" or "gay". Maybe even celibacy can be a nonvirtue in some very rare circunstances.

Funniest mindless movie of the last few years. McLovin is the best, and the other guys grew on me.
In his job he needs to undervalue the suffering of others in order to make more money. Then there’s the smell, the ass and the eye. The degree of objectification of desire is in direct proportion to the self-debasement of the indulger. By degrading the other, he nullifies himself. The very indifference to the overjealous ones, the suppressed recalcitrant losers of the world, is what causes their victims to exist. Great disturbing movie.
A lost science fiction PBS movie with Taoist undertones is a real find, right? A guy discovers his dreams change reality—when he wakes up he finds himself in a world where the content of his dreams have actually happened. He of course gets scared after a couple of nightmares, seeks relief in drugs, and then, because of them, is lead to a psychiatrist. 
Here's for all the sissy Apple lovers out there... This is the ultimate design for my old Duron, which faithfully downloaded well over one terabyte (mostly movies, 1300+) always on 24/7/365 over the last four years. It also runs Apache and is a file and printer server, as well as a router for my home network (with four, also damn old and beautiful computers). Sometimes I dust it off with a vacuum cleaner.
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In imdb a user commented: "Annoying little transition into some sort of regurgitated independent film values finds this shallow project from Brad Silberling offering little and providing less in this embarrassingly exploitive work." I agree, yet it is still watchable — even more so if you understand how clichê is the fabricated spontaneity in it. It is as if independent movie has aquired its own hollywood-like formulaicism. So it kind of becomes an interestingly consumated aesthetic portrail of so many cult-status fabricated stylishness examples we see around. Many people liked 





