orangehomer
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I thought the premise was interesting and pretty scary. but I didn't understand the need for the racial tension. was I missing something?
I thought the premise was interesting and pretty scary. but I didn't understand the need for the racial tension. was I missing something?
well that's actually not the point of the movie. is there a spoiler button? the premise of the movie is creepy enough without being dependent on some "white people kidnapping black people" innuendo. its creepy enough that people were kidnapping people to give them brain transplants! I don't care what color the people are it was weird and creepy enough to make a movie out of as it was...i'm asking if the racial part was necessary to the story or if there was some other thematic implication I may have been missing.Yes. The entire point of the movie.
well that's actually not the point of the movie. is there a spoiler button? the premise of the movie is creepy enough without being dependent on some "white people kidnapping black people" innuendo. its creepy enough that people were kidnapping people to give them brain transplants! I don't care what color the people are it was weird and creepy enough to make a movie out of as it was...i'm asking if the racial part was necessary to the story or if there was some other thematic implication I may have been missing.
so you didn't think the premise of the movie was kidnapping people to give them brain transplants?It is the point of the movie. Like you said, thematically, there seems to be much in the movie that you missed.
Sure, it certainly is one premise of the film. But there is a whole bunch of themes and symbolism, both obvious and subtle, that you have missed.so you didn't think the premise of the movie was kidnapping people to give them brain transplants?
maybe we are talking about different things. to me a premise is the basic facts about what we are talking about.It is the point of the movie. Like you said, thematically, there seems to be much in the movie that you missed.
maybe we are talking about different things. to me a premise is the basic facts about what we are talking about.
premise: a basis, stated or assumed, on which reasoning proceeds.
with any weird movie like this, we have to have a premise. this movie is about people kidnapping people to give them brain transplants.
when I asked about missing a theme, it is a different question than had I missed a premise. a theme is defined as:
theme: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
so in my mind, making inferences about thematic intent of a film is different than simply identifying the premise.