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This movie is awesome！！！

orangesphynx:

If you haven’t seen this movie, you should.  It’s definitely dated but that is part of the reason to see it.  It is about an African tribe and their reaction to a soda bottle that falls out of the sky and into their village.  Most of us wouldn’t see a soda bottle as a technological advance, but compared to the simple life of the natives it is amazing. They believe it to be a gift from the gods and find many uses for the item.  But other reactions to it and the effect it has on their community (an enclosed network without outside influences) is very interesting.  

In the chapter “The Algebra of Need” of Shaviro’s book, he says “the very structure of the network works to perpetuate infinite need.” A “need” develops for this item which no one “needed” before to survive and it creates contention so one member of the tribe decides to throw it off the edge of the world and, thus, embarks on a journey where he makes new connections.  this is mainly shown in the first 5 minutes and 45 seconds, but afterward it is interesting to see the difference in the other, more technologically advanced, network.

WARNING: there is some National Geographic type nudity in the video. 

desipio1223:

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This reminds me of a film of Leonardo DiCaprio named Shutter Island. It tells a story happened on a shutter island in the Pacific Ocean which is built into an Ashecliffe Hospital. To some extent, the hospital is a prison, where people are believed criminally insane and are locked,isolated and cruelly treated by those so called “doctors”. In the film Dicaprio acted as a federal marshal who is assigned to do some investigation on the shutter island, however, at last he was told by Dr. Cawley , the head of the institution that all happened  around him is false and carefully designed. Everything is a kind of treatment, for Dicaprio himself is in fact a patient with heavy mental illness who have lived on the shutter island for more than ten years.  At the end of the film, Dicaprio lost in confusion and begins to doubt whether he is normal or insane. 

The movie can be read as an interesting story of a madman, but also can be considered as  revealing the unimaginable power of the autiority which can even discipline a normal people to believe himself a madman.

There is a famous Chinese poem with only one word

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