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Maybe this is something that's been obvious to everyone else since it came out, but when I watched Pulp Fiction again last week, it finally occurred to me the whole movie is about alternative perspectives. Rigorously, in every scene, in every piece of dialogue. The Quarter Pounder has a different name for people who use the metric system, Jules ( Read more... )

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Did you ever wonder what would happen if the Doctor and Romana met Travis Bickle and Iris in Edwardian London? Well, I more or less found out yesterday when I listened to the Fourth Doctor audio play "The Justice of Jalxar". One of the best Doctor Who audio plays I've heard so far, the story takes the opportunity to show how the Doctor's philosophy ( Read more... )

To counter the modern idea that episodic films are somehow bad, that movies need to have a constant central narrative thrust at the fore at all times, I'm compiling here a list of four great films that tell their stories in an episodic manner. This is by no means an exhaustive list--I aimed for a diverse sampling.

Taxi DriverServing to emphasis ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I was in a large, crowded super market where everyone was behaving like it was an MMORPG. Most of the time I couldn't say exactly what it was about their behaviour that made them seem like MMORPG avatars, aside from the fact that everyone moved at a trot and mindlessly grabbed items from shelves. It was more something about the ( Read more... )