films: on the subject of alternate and/or parallel lives
“the internet is like this new human experience. at first, everybody’s gonna like it. but there will be a fundamental change in the human condition. one day we’re all gonna wake up and realize we’re just servants. it’s captured us.”
We Live in Public (IMDB/netflix) – are you reading this on the internet? have you not seen this movie? do you have a facebook account? do you use a smartphone to “check in” to places and tell the world where you’re at? do you tweet about what you eat? is your life trackable online? you should watch this movie. especially if the above applies to you and you have also been to burning man.
a biography/documentary of josh harris. like “The Social Network“, only the crazy slightly sociopathic internet visionary is played by himself and he goes a bit crazier than Zuckerberg with his ideas about how the internet will change humanity, including creation of an underground pod community in NYC just before Y2K where everyone is on TV/broadcast to each other 24/7. watch trailer.
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Das Wilde Leben aka 8 miles high (IMDB/netflix/wikipedia) – hot german girl Uschi Obermaier joins counterculture community experiment Kommune 1 in west berlin in the late 60s, meets revolutionaries, becomes “it girl”/supermodel, hooks up with the rolling stones, travels the world all gypsylike. the movie has great scenes and dialog but also sort of cheesy stereotypical 1960s “free love” moments. the actress who plays Uschi is unbelievably hot. fictional biography. in german with subtitles. also super relevant if you have ever been to burning man.
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Leaves of Grass (IMDB/netflix) – in which Edward Norton plays twin brothers who have diverged somewhat stereotypically into a redneck pot farmer and harvard philosophy professor and are reunited under contentious circumstances. i was skeptical (mostly because of a) fake southern accents are hard to take and b) it had a very Doc Hollywood “big shot gets stuck in small town” direction to the script), but i admit the dialogue and acting was above average, and while some moments were easy to see coming, others were totally not. edward norton fans will LOVE this. as will intellectual potheads.
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i sense a theme here in the movies i’ve watched lately.
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