As someone who actually went to watch it in theatres honestly expecting to like it, the fact that he doesn't bother to talk about that turd only increases my absolute respect and admiration for this amazing performer. Good sir, I salute you!

Very à propos simile, where you could be America, and the rest of the world your terrorized sister…

Not really. More like he's gonna screw each and every one of us out here. Eeeach and every onnne. Sad!

Yeah… it is a flash-forward and I guess it can be read as her present consciousness visiting the future and learning stuff she needs to save the past. Ultimately there is a paradox that can't quite be made work logically and is kinda cheating, as in any time travel story where someone from the future travels back and…

Well, yes, but she also acts all confused when the Chinese general tells her about what she did, so a certain degree of let's say forgetfulness might be involved in the way she experiences time, or a "I don't know what's gonna come next and yet I do…"

Hah! Right, but maybe the Kennedy assassination was part of a system so complex not even Dr Manhattan could alter, whereas Louise does have the power to make personal choices that will alter the future. The phone call, obviously, but also having children at all. Perhaps ANY child she'd have would die eventually, or at…

I like this interpretation. I'd apply a logic similar to past memories, and especially false memories. She remembers something from the future and acts in consquence, but she has free will to do the opposite thing, to go in an opposite direction, and then that future memory becomes a false memory, and a new one would…

I thought the same. He wouldn't resent his daughter existing at all, but knowing how cruelly she'd be taken away from them by illness.

I'm not sure about that. What I took from the film, and I think the writer explained something similar in a podcast, it's not like she has an omniscient vision of all the moments in her life, but more like a blurred, uneven grasp of the whole thing, pretty much the way we vividly recall certain moments in our lives,…

I've read that before. In the 1980s Germans were only a close second to English as ethnic origin of US citizens. Don't know if that percentage has varied in the last thirty years between those two groups.
Of course it's a racist issue. Germans could change their names and swear they were Swedish or Danish or Dutch or…

I don't know any of legal details, but if it was in FDR's powers to stop such infamy, he is fully to blame, as Chief of State. Even more so because we may not have expected much of GWB, but boy do we expect some greatness from FDR.

Damn.

My whole point: inexplicable.

I was kinda dismayed when I read he'd directed this. But hey, every director has a dud. I'm pretty sure he'll bounce back.

It does sometimes, yes. Same as with every country in this beautiful planet.

Hah! That might be the case, but I'd say all he's wearing is his usual fake nose. Back then he still kept his weight more or less under control, so he might have simply lost a few pounds for the shooting. I don't know.

Sorry, I'm confused, which makeup do you mean to make him look younger?

Hee hee.

Hah! Honest to god, first time I see a hair on that dome…

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