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People dream of androids/  /July 13, 2002

You see, movies are like dreams; if we don't mull them over from outside the trance, they leave us, and they leave us unchanged.

But your question, "Can you see a movie without analyzing it?" sought my response to the film as a dream, not as a series of techniques. I admit: making an inventory of movies' techniques is only useful to movie craftsmen. My apologies to all those offended.

My dream-response to Minority Report: the technology is frightfully real (and delightfully near); Agatha is a very strong and personal character for me: she is essentially human and yet she has an experience radically different from the other characters, due to her "gift" ("Is this now?" she says, in her first compelling, unfamiliar experience since childhood); John's plight was not especially frightening for me, because he handled it so well. And finally: that biatch in the greenhouse is rad.

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