anonymous wrote :

At 09:35 AM 1/2/02 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:

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Nomen Nescio[SMTP:nobody@dizum.com] wrote:

There was once an effort here to list CP relevent prose. How about a list of CP relevent moving pictures (and why relevent)?

Enemy of the State ---for surveillance and conspiracy GATTACA ---for biometrics, identity fraud, surveillance

more?

Why has no one mentioned '1984'? I've only seen the 1956 version with Edmond O'Brien, not the 1984 version with John Hurt.

If we're going to proceed down the 'state as evil' axis, there's a rich vein of content, such as 'Brazil', 'The President's Analyst' (very funny, and highly reccomended), and many others.

I was specifically trying to avoid such mentally-unnourishing but visually tasty scifi candy as "Matrix" etc. Mostly Choate polluted the list, what a surprise. 1984, because of the televisors and surveillance is ok; Brazil (although brilliant) isn't CP though fantastic in many other respects. If I'm wrong, its because it been years, and I welcome correction.

Brazil : there's now a nice 3-disc set available that includes the full 142 min. version, a bunch of commentary and extras plus the sweetened 90 min. version shown on 'murrican TV. Brazil is CP in the sense that the hunger of the state and marketeers for database filler and the resultant dangers and fuckups is relevant to privacy, information and rights issues that once were part of the the discussion. Now it's mostly mattd and tripple-x critter sex. Not that I'm implying any direct connection. mattd - there's way too much of it but it's not totally devoid of substance. The uncredited posting of someone else's work, well, that's a big problem unless it isn't someone else's work. Mike