I am truly, honestly baffled by the mixed critical response to this film. Now, I saw it in 3D, but did *not* see it in 48 fps, which, had I seen it that way, might well have distanced me from the action in just the way the reviewer describes. So I suspect I got the best of all worlds.

So, "Neon Genesis Evangelion" with a title change.

Sounds like a very worthy project. Do you know EcoVillage Ithaca? It's the one cohousing village I've actually visited. Fancier, possibly, than what you're describing, but still very inspiring.

By "doesn't matter," I assume you mean it doesn't matter *to you*. Who said it should? The fact that other people actually do like communal arrangements doesn't oblige you personally to follow suit. But people are and have been living this way for some time. Hence the links.

In spite of the nay-saying here regarding communal kitchen areas, this has already been done for decades in cohousing complexes (urban and non-urban) all over Europe and North America.

Yeah, there are problems with the wording of the article. It's a loaded use of language to call the epigenetic passing down of (say) sexual preference for males to a male fetus "feminization".

Yes, yet another excuse to try to control womens' uteruses.

Great article. It's fun & enlightening to read the responses.

Your argument implies that all data produced through high technology that tells us something *about* technology is somehow invalid. Which doesn't make sense.

For your consideration.

So when my car mechanic says my engine is powered by magical fairies, I'm being "closed-minded" when I conclude he's a lunatic? I'd say rather that I'm making a reasonable assessment of the situation.

Adding my voice here too. Quite liked "Enterprise."

Journalism criticizing crap journalism in totalitarian country is crap. Not surprising, especially in relation to countries associated with Communism. "But Communism is different, you see... we can treat Communist countries differently because... everybody knows that journalism in Communist countries is... oh wait."

"Go out and support what you like instead of complaining about what you don't..."

"In fact, Johnson indirectly shows us in this film how to use genre. Not as a track for the characters to roll along until they reach a destination we all see coming, but as a source of pressure that makes the characters' lives difficult. To the extent that this is a "gangster movie" or a "time-travel movie," those…

Definitely. I was reminded of "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" — not in relation to the plot, which is quite different, but in terms of what CJA says above about how to use genre: "Not as a track for the characters to roll along... but as a source of pressure that makes the characters' lives difficult." The lawlessness,…

Unseemly comment.

A truly wonderful and sweet video.

(Ahem, I was trying to avoid spoilers here...)

John Crowley's "Aegypt" quartet might be an example of this. Over the course of its 1600 pages, the narrative dances between the question of whether its fantasy elements are "real", or whether they point to a non-fantastic, non-magical world.