loneliness

http://www.physorg.com/news73834115.html

there's a technical view. I've been wanting to watch the fountain, but that is not possible yet. I attempted to download it, from someone who had filmed it in a movie-theater, but the image was a grey blur and I know for a fact that it is a truly beautiful film. I watched the first half hour, I'll wait for a year until it is released on dvd, i doubt it will ever be shown in a movie-theater here.

The film seems to be about loneliness, or perhaps solitude. It shows a future where technology does not look like technology. It is, unlike star trek or star wars, not about the hardware. This is important. If you watch mel brooks' parody spaceballs on dvd, you'll be able to switch to the commentary track. On the opening sequence there is a ridiculously large spaceship, mel brooks' on the commentary track says something to the effect of 'i could just film this spaceship for the entire length of the movie, for it is what films like star wars are really about'.

He is absolutely right.

The fountain has no hardware. And that is an accurate representation of the future, from any technical point of view, buttons and screens will disappear entirely in less than a hundred years. People will interface with machines by thinking to them, not by anything so crude as pushing buttons, watching screens or talking to them or waiving their hands. A person controlling a vast army of machines in the future will look like someone just standing still, not doing anything at all. Visually, it is not very exciting, but it is realism.

The fountain seems to be using this. It seems to tell a story where each man really is floating alone in the cosmos.

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