In this movie Ashley Marcuccio plays Jane, a woman who is recounting
some personal stories about her life with her late father Leonard
Shlain while trying to tie together the history of the last few
thousand years to suggest that: 1) Men dominated women for ages and
started wars and so on because of the development of writing which
stimulates left brain thinking and 2) the Internet is now making us
interconnected and stimulating right brain thinking and this will
eventually make things all right again. We should note that
the writer of the script recieved help from Al Gore and so is
probably a hopeless Democrat and Obama-lover. Weather this
polyanna view of the world's future development will work out to
bring non-violence to all or weather the Internet will simply become
another broadcast medium to send violent images to the masses (via
blockbuster violent movies and trailers) remains to be seen. Some
books recommended by the movie include, Art and Physics, The
Alphabet vs The Goddess and Leonardo's Brain. Three stars.
This movie ranks as iffy because it has a total of 13 violent scenes
in it. These include: a soldier getting shot, riots, a bomb blowing
up, a car accident, one of the woman's twins dies in the womb, there
is a story of a family dieing in the holocaust, a story of WWI
including images of war, a story of WWII including a nuclear
detonation, a story of 36 million Chinese people dieing of
starvation, a woman slaps a man, images of Vietnam bombings and two
more nuclear explosions.
The previews included: two non-violent commercials, a violent
preview for Heir Apparent and non-violent previews for Weekend,
Margin Call and A Dangerous Method.
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