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I had a writing professor in college who confessed to us that her favorite movie was the Ethan Hawke/Uma Thurman eugenics film, Gattaca. After that came out, she turned the semester into Gattaca-chat. Every class discussion that she could relate to Gattaca, by gosh she did.1
Now, far be it from me to criticize someone’s movie preferences. I have a bizarre infactuation with some really mediocre ones.2 It’s just, while Gattaca isn’t a bad movie by any means, I have a hard time trying to justify it as a favorite movie.
But maybe I was just taken aback by her sincerity when it came to Gattaca. Maybe it speaks to her in a way that I could never get. And that connection gives Gattaca some sort of gravitas that shadows its faults.
I certaintly could have just asked her why she had a thing for Gattaca, but I was a freshman and I was stupid.
But, c’mon, freakin’ Gattaca!? Really!?
Mixtape by Luke Snellin
Mixtape’s a super charming short that was recently nominated for a BAFTA.
Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro from Szymon Weglarski on Vimeo.
Never thought the previous Nanooks video could be topped. I was wrong.
When I was in NYC last month pals Jen and Steve took me to the NY Neo-Futurists and boy was it the tops! They were performing their best of 2009 show and everything was brilliant. Below is the world’s most bitchin’ handshake (clearly).