X-Message-Number: 18197
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:54:21 -0800
From: Natasha Vita-More <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #18184 - #18193

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>From: Charles Platt <>
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>So here is the entire basis for this very silly movie. It is one
>Now a few questions for those who have seen the movie:
>
>1. Does anyone understand the title? What does Monet have to do with
>anything in the film?

Monet's work is of the Impressionist genre (characterized by concentration 
on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene).  The dream 
simulated environment could be deemed to be Impressionist, although there 
are clearly some handicaps with this in that it lacked the type of 
metaphoric brush stroke.  Nevertheless, VR or other simulated environments 
could be placed in a neo-Impressionistic genre.

>2. Why does Tom Cruise stop shaving half way through?

Dream state.

>3. How does the initial sequence relate to anything? Supposedly at this
>point he has not entered his Lucid Dreaming cycle. So why is this initial
>dream relevant? Why does he drive a Ferrari in the dream? Because Ferrari
>paid for product placement?

His dream state reflects what he wanted, liked and was afraid of.

This might be a better association: Impressionism  - "A literary style 
characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke 
subjective and sensory impressions rather than the re-creation of objective 
reality."  I think this is spot on, don't you?

>4. Is the resemblance of the older male cryonicist Fred Chamberlain purely
>coincidental?

Which one? (I guess I didn't see a  resemblance -:))

>5. Is the resemblance of the red-haired female cryonicist in the New York
>headquarters to Linda Chamberlain purely coincidental?

Again, I didn't notice any resemblance.  I believe she is an actress on the 
rise and probably took this part because of the director and the 
association with well-known actors.


Thanks for your observations Charles.

Natasha

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