silly premise
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DoctorNordo — 11 years ago(August 27, 2014 05:30 PM)
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mimsies — 11 years ago(November 10, 2014 06:55 PM)
Actually, emotion IS functionally critical.
Without emotion, people make terrible decisions, and even that is when they are capable of making any decisions. There is a place in the prefrontal cortex generally referred to as the "Gage Matrix" which is critical in higher emotions. When people have damage to that area, thereby dulling or even eliminating their emotions, but have no deficits in intelligence, memory,, etc., they became largely unable to function effectively. They not only lose a guide to allow them to follow laws, rules, mores, etc. but they also become incapable of making simple every day decisions about what to do first, what strategy to use to get tasks accomplished, things like that.
Look up the somatic marker hypothesis, and Descartes Error By Antonio Damasio. -
cosmic_surveyor — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 12:12 AM)
It's not about having no emotions!
It's about having a tamer emotional response. Prozium in the film moderates the responses so they don't get too high or too low.
An example would be the Star Wars Jedi warriors. The Masters easily control their emotional responses. The apprentices are learning. The warriors are somewhere in between. Meanwhile, the talented Anakin Skywalker could not when it mattered most. Note the Darth Lords also temper their emotional responses well.
Someone brought up the Star Trek Vulcans. By training and cultivation, they too have tamed their emotional responses.
In reality, science has demonstrated that practicing certain meditation techniques tempers emotional responses.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121112150339.htm
A decade ago, the artists might not have known what is possible and could only portray what they thought was possible. In the "making of", they could only see the two extremes, zombies or raging lunatics. They saw the middle as a failure of portrayal and hoped the audience was forgiving.
In effect, they had a premise they couldn't wrap their heads around.
So, it's not a silly premise to have Darth Lords, Jedi Masters or Vulcans ruling a civilization. -
pbento68 — 12 years ago(August 16, 2013 10:53 PM)
I don't care what you call it, Dodging bullets is dodging bullets and it is not up for debate if humans have the capacity to react that quickly. Much less calculate mathematically the likely trajectory of a bullet. Embarrassingly stupid.
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vocklabruck — 12 years ago(November 16, 2013 06:25 AM)
In fact, how can Brandt "feel" there is something wrong with Preston if he is supposed not to have emotions? Pride is also an emotion, the guy giving a speech to hundreds of people is full of emotions, etc. The entire film is just an entire contradiction. It's not too bad anyway, nice visual achievement.
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ilawefvcjr — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 01:31 AM)
I agree, at the begining we see Bale shooting the crap out of the resistance. He shoots his friend..Bean, and then all of a sudden within 24 hours he starts to change. Not good. As you say if you have no emotion why are they looking for a career advancement.