(January 30, 2015 at 4:31 pm)Alex K Wrote: Have you seen Primeval, the series?I haven't. I have only recently begun to watch the occasional TV series thanks to Netflix. I'm terrible at maintaining a viewing schedule. I'll keep an eye out for it, though.
Alex K Wrote:Anyways, for me it's about the script. I want escapism, atmosphere and some (faux)philosophical meanderings.I can appreciate a good story that is well-told and well-acted, but for some films I've learned to turn off my brain (or at least, lower my expectations) in order to enjoy them. Too few of the movies I watch wind up having the kind of story and depth that I can really sink into. Kolya might still be my favorite in that regard, in that the acting is understated but you're able to pick up the nuances pretty easily (not bad for a subtitled version). It weaves symbolism into the script brilliantly, IMO, something I don't commonly get to see in movies.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
