Watched Repo Man over the weekend, one very strange movie, a black comedy, with an interesting plot and very good cast. I really enjoyed it, but, I must state, for the record and for full disclosure, that Wendy did not enjoy the movie and left the room to read, I carried on and enjoyed myself. Bam Bam stayed with me, but, he was asleep on my lap most of the time and I dont think he has an opinion on the movie. The Bonus, or Extra stuff, on the Repo Man DVD was very interesting. Up Close with Harry Dean Stanton, a lengthy interview with Harry Dean was stranger than the movie. Harry is one spacey dude --- listening to the interview reminded me a great deal of talking to a lot of hippies back in the sixties. That is, a lot of different ideas and philosophies to create a world view, many of these ideas and philosophies I did not (and do not) disagree with, and, even find interesting, but, when you mash them all together they do get a little abstract, or, too much new age, or, spooky for me. One of the interesting concepts Mr Stanton talked about, which did surprise me, was the noosphere, a concept I first came across through Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on an Ideas program (CBC Radio) way back in the early seventies (I believe it was), and, I got quite interested in Chardin and the noosphere. In the theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere. In contrast to the conceptions of the Gaia theorists, or the promoters of cyberspace, Vernadskys noosphere emerges at the point where humankind, through the mastery of nuclear processes, begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements. It is also currently being researched as part of the Princeton Global Consciousness Project.[7] Repossessed, was the second Bonus interview on the DVD and it was a fascinating interview with the director and two producers of Repo Man. How the movie actually got made and the stuff they went through to actually get the movie on the screen was most interesting. You hear about what a screwed up process making a movie can be in Hollywood, and, to hear these three guys talking about what they went through is quite insightful. I watched the movie as this evening I am going to see: Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction. Monday, March 31, starts at 7 pm, the doors open at 6:30. Admission $10, Bonnington Arts Centre, Nakusp. Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction crime comedy film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy, with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:09:07 +0000
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