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                                                            The Addams Family Movie

It was 99 years ago in January that Charles Samuel Addams was born - the man who would create The Addams Family, a clan so rich in macabre charm they're almost the very definition of it. Who isn't second? They're also contenders for some of the best movie lines ever. While there may not be anything of the scope of "Frankly, my dear..." in the lexicon of the delightfully bizarre  Gomez, Morticia and crew, they have delivered a fairly large number of truly funny moments.

                     Morticia: Margaret, about the séance tonight, I wish you'd come. It's Gomez, I'm terribly 
                                 worried about him. He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood...
                Margaret: He coughs up blood?
                Morticia: Well, not like he used to.

Perhaps their most resounding signature is not so much merely funny but weighty,
ominous. The outrageous, often mentioned—"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc."

                      Morticia: And our credo, "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc"..."We gladly feast on 
                                  those who would subdue us." Not just pretty words.

Not only one of the best movie lines but one of the most striking lines ever. What does
this speak to in us? A sense of independence so ferocious that it not only repels any
attempt at subjugation, but consumes in celebration anyone or anything that even tries.
Now there's a spirit that soars with a vengeance.

It doesn't take much to realize that it is the pure empowerment of embracing the
shocking, the opposite of everything considered normal, that is so appealing. Maybe
deep down it's the individualist prime in us. The more outlandish, the better. The more
disruptive to the sensibilities that seem to rule all too much, that we would love to
challenge and assert freedom from—the better.

                  Wednesday: Please pass the salt.

                  Morticia: And what do we say?

                  Wednesday: NOW.

There is also something mysteriously appealing about casting horrible things and ideas
into the light of casual acceptance.
　
                 Morticia: Don't torture yourself, Gomez- that's my job.


                 Dr. Pinderschloss: Love/hate, hate/love. Like for mama, no?
                 Gomez: But I didn't hate my mother- it was an accident!

　
Perhaps it's informing us on some level that nothing, even the outrageously terrible, is
beyond some shift in perspective. After all, what free souls they were! Joyful, rich and
oblivious. Though, oblivious only to their own incredibly odd station in reality.
Otherwise, they were definite sophisticates.

               　Gomez:(to Tully) Dirty pool, old man!


                   Morticia:They say she danced naked in the town square and enslaved a minister! 
                                     But don't  worry, we told Wednesday, "College first."


And passion between Lovers that didn't only heat up the room but burned down the walls.

                       　
                    Gomez: (helping Morticia out of a torture device) Leather straps...red-hot 
                                    pokers...
                     Morticia: Later, my dearest.

In the everyday rush of blood to the head, what a delight to have a dose of the weird and
wonderful.  And The Addams Family, both the original tv show and the movies, are
certainly that. Like a secret smile to yourself.

　
                       Wednesday: (when asked about her Halloween costume) I'm a homicidal maniac-
                                                they look  just  everyone else.
　

And sometimes, when the challenges are particularly hard, there are still things that can
lighten the moment—a reminder.
　
                        Dr. Pinderschloss: The human spirit, it is a very difficult thing to kill.
                        Grandma: Even with a chainsaw!

I've certainly had my share of days completely forgetting to laugh, at least a little.
But I'm feeling MUCH better, now.

　
　
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                                                                The Science of Sleepcc

      The Science of Sleep is a French Film made in 2006 by writer/director Michel Gondry, 
       known for his visual flair at "setting the scene,"  as they say in the business.
      This is a love story between Stephane and Stephanie, the similiarity in names
       underpinning the theme of the inevitably deep connection between them.
       Of course, doesn't it seem in life that sometimes a bond is absolutely fated—producing
       lovers and friends?

            Stephane: No! I don't want to be your friend anymore!I don't want to be your friend
                               anymore! Do I have to nail it on your door? "I don't want to be your friend."
             Stéphanie: No you, you can't, you can't stop being my friend. It's not something people can 
                                decide.

       The tale is a surreal one. Surrealism, the template of expressing with the "nonrational" 
       and the unexpected, in dreamlike form—always leaves us viewers with the task of
       working a little harder than usual to figure out—What did they mean by that?, What are
       they saying?, Are those giant hands or are you just happy to see me? (Right, it's in the movie).

               Stéphanie: Randomness is very difficult to achieve... organization always merges back if 
                                  you don't pay attention.

        So besides being a love story...

　             Stéphane: Would you marry me when we are seventy? You have nothing to lose.
　
       Probably not the most romantic thing she's ever heard but besides the story
       of two people meant for each other, this movie is a treatise, of sorts, on the
       mystery of fields of possibilities.

　        Stéphane: P. S. R. Parallel Synchronized Randomness. An interesting brain rarity and our 
       subject for today. Two people walk in opposite directions at the same time and then they make 
      the same decision at the same time. Then they correct it, and then they correct it, and then they
      correct it, and then they correct it, and then they correct it. Basically, in a mathematical world
      these two little guys will stay looped for the end of time. The brain is the most complex thing in
      the universe and it's right behind the nose.

　     One moment splitting off into countless possible next moments. Each in turn
        doing the same thing. And with them—entire universes? This is the sort of thing
        that can sometimes make philosophers, scientists and regular citizens alike run
        down the road with their hands in the air, screaming, "Aughh! My head hurts!!"
        The theme has a further interesting component in Stephane's "One Second Time
        Machine."

　             Stéphane: I'm exhausted, I'm going to wake up now.
　
         Right, Steve. Back to the love story.

　             Stéphane: I love her because she makes things. You know? She makes things with her hands.
                     It's as if her synapses was married directly to her fingers. (wiggles fingers) Like this. In this
                     way.
　
         Now, that's kind of romantic. He should have told her that instead of the marry me
         when we're old because there won't be anything better to do line. But Stephane, as
         is often the case, has worked himself into a no-win loop.
　
                   Stéphane: This girl is at once all the women that broke my heart. She is so beautiful and
　               generous and she is asking me to leave because she is dumping me. She is dumping me because
　               I am a cheap drug dealer. And I am a drug dealer because she wants to leave me.
　
          Not that he doesn't have his moments.
　
                    Stéphane: Tonight I'll show you how dreams are prepared,............. love, friendships,
                                      relationships. All those ships.
　
           In spite of Stephane's highwrought hallucinatory journey and the host of star-crossed
           occurrences, they come together through sheer electromagnetic draw and literally, in a
           most figurative way, sail off together into Forever.
　
                      Stéphanie: Distraction is an obstruction to the construction.

　        Well, Dieu seul sait.

　　
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