Андрей Быдло

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  • The Andromeda Strain (1971)

    Based on the novel by Jurasic Park’s and Westworld’s author Michael Crichton. Scientists were called to inspect and contain a deadly virus of an unknown origin. Movie is very slow (130 mins) and it goes out of it’s way to show how characters stick to the code of entering the facility and working in labs. Somewhere in here, behind sealed doors, elevators and a system of self-destruction in case there’s a risk it gets away, there’s a sence of dread and stress that shows in the team in spite of their strict procedures and proffesionalism when their fate is decided by their analyzis and the blinking of these cold war-era computers carrying the results.

    I enjoyed it all a couple of times. It’s slow but it also feel very tight. Sure, many folks would have a better time watching it on 2x speed nowadays, although it may hurt the suspense of the movie.

    CW: lab animals, cut wounds, strobing lights

    https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/andromeda_strain










  • Every one of these cases is a failure of a society as a whole, may it big or small. Maybe it’s an edge case, or a person with a mental condition whose actions we missed a chance to counteract in time. But from what I hear I can assume chinese propaganda encourages nationalistic feelings and some kind of a new chinese identity to keep their social fabric intact and productive, patriotic, and it seems that this person may as well be a byproduct of that. They have a personal responsibility for what they did, but killing them off wouldn’t bring the dead woman back. He is a man, not a rabid dog, and just killing him doesn’t solve anything but saving taxes, maybe. The goal is to start undoing the same corruption in others, and killing them cold is not encouraging for them to be open to be healed.

    The same applies to why mentally ill persons don’t self-report before they slip, do something and get caught in most countries.