Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology



Disappointing...
This film never seems to find a direction, barely touching on interesting topics such as honey bees and corn syrup, cellular phones and cancer, as well as pollution. Even the director's own mess of a diagram makes no sense, so she relies on her father to connect "the dots." Speaking of which, 50% of this film is an exploitation of a dying man, which should be meant for a family video, not a mainstream documentary. Don't get me wrong, it's an understandable reaction to upcoming loss and grief, but it's the kind of footage that most would put into a vault after mourning because it ends feeling macabre.

Now this film builds a premises of the Left Brain analyzes logically, and that the Right Brain focuses on Art, Emotional Connections, and finding patterns. Pattern Finding is not associated with the right brain any more than the left, which is why there are both intuitive-thinkers (NT's) and intuitive-feelers (NF's). Intuitives focus on past and future, finding...

I love it!
It's a great documentary. I watched it first time borrowing from local library and decided that it was so good that I'd like to buy a copy myself. I also shared it with a friend of mine. It's very insightful, full of interesting ideas, as well as well filmed and emotional. It really makes me think what really matters in life.

nice
Having heard his interesting lectures on brain, art etc. the movie really didn't out his skill as a speaker. Otherwise a fine piece of work

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