Why do they all have to take lunch at the same time? It would be fairly easy for their electronic overlords to stagger the workers lunch breaks to prevent that sort of stack-up.
That's too bad. I'm marginal on Moore, but his stuff is *far* from the cream.
If you haven't, take a look at "The Thin Blue Line" (Erroll Morris, the *king* of good docs), "Paradise Lost (1-3)", "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room", "Unraveled", "Touching the Void", "TalHotBlond"... just to name a few really good ones off the top of my head. Docs are too good to dismiss them just because of Moore's weak pandering.
When he starts to present his thesis, after establishing the setting, the audience stops laughing. I think they suddenly realize that they are not listening to an entertaining speech, but one that drew them in with humor, and then turned it all around with a profound truth. This is the way a good speech or story often works; by starting with a setting that the listener thinks they already understand, and then revealing the hidden parts that the listener never considered before.
I wonder if it would have gone differently if they'd used an objectively ugly girl instead. Would these seemingly charming boys hesitate to slap a girl if it wasn't even clear that the person beside them was really a girl? I don't mean just androgynous, since that by itself can actually be quite "pretty". I mean androgynous due to severe deformity or something. It would be hard to find someone like that who'd willingly put themselves in the situation, though, so I suppose I'll never know.
Imagining myself in the boy's shoes, I think I would have reacted differently at 8-11.
Director: "Now, slap her." Me to Director: "Do I have to really slap her or can I fake it?" Director: "Really slap her." Me to Director: "On the face?" Director: "Yes." Me to Girl: "Are you alright with this?" Girl: "Yes." Me to Director: "How hard?" Director: "As hard as you can." Me to Girl: "Are you sure about this?" Girl: "Yes." Me to Girl: (SLAP!)
My parents taught me that the difference between a caress and molestation, or sex and rape, or friendly fighting and abuse, is consent. For instance, if a couple boxers get in the ring and beat each other bloody, they serve no jail time, a la consent.
Of course, I probably wouldn't have asked for consent before the caress, since she's so pretty I'd want to do that anyway. I'm not exactly sure why I would assume the girl consented in the case of a caress and then double verify consent before the slap, but it might be that one will incur less of a disciplinary action than the other if done without permission. That is, if I caress a random stranger on the cheek, she may be upset, but I probably won't go to jail for it. If I slap a stranger, I might end up in jail after a court hearing. Or at 8 yo, it may be the former would mean I get a verbal reprimand at to not do that, the latter and I get severely punished (grounded for a month or w/e).
I keep a folder at home of step-by-step instructions for myself to follow immediately upon losing employment. It has an updated resume and all of the information that would normally go a job application. The first step is that I am not allowed to go to bed that night until I have applied for a job at the local grocery store.
There is no such thing as a Pontiac Thunderbird... especially in 1963. There *was* a Ford Thunderbird in 1963... the first Pontiac Firebird was released in 1967.
If you haven't, take a look at "The Thin Blue Line" (Erroll Morris, the *king* of good docs), "Paradise Lost (1-3)", "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room", "Unraveled", "Touching the Void", "TalHotBlond"... just to name a few really good ones off the top of my head. Docs are too good to dismiss them just because of Moore's weak pandering.
This is the way a good speech or story often works; by starting with a setting that the listener thinks they already understand, and then revealing the hidden parts that the listener never considered before.
Imagining myself in the boy's shoes, I think I would have reacted differently at 8-11.
Director: "Now, slap her."
Me to Director: "Do I have to really slap her or can I fake it?"
Director: "Really slap her."
Me to Director: "On the face?"
Director: "Yes."
Me to Girl: "Are you alright with this?"
Girl: "Yes."
Me to Director: "How hard?"
Director: "As hard as you can."
Me to Girl: "Are you sure about this?"
Girl: "Yes."
Me to Girl: (SLAP!)
My parents taught me that the difference between a caress and molestation, or sex and rape, or friendly fighting and abuse, is consent. For instance, if a couple boxers get in the ring and beat each other bloody, they serve no jail time, a la consent.
Of course, I probably wouldn't have asked for consent before the caress, since she's so pretty I'd want to do that anyway. I'm not exactly sure why I would assume the girl consented in the case of a caress and then double verify consent before the slap, but it might be that one will incur less of a disciplinary action than the other if done without permission. That is, if I caress a random stranger on the cheek, she may be upset, but I probably won't go to jail for it. If I slap a stranger, I might end up in jail after a court hearing. Or at 8 yo, it may be the former would mean I get a verbal reprimand at to not do that, the latter and I get severely punished (grounded for a month or w/e).