What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

Maybe The Salesman will be available in disc after the Oscar ceremony. It must be in some cinemas from US but I have no idea how this distribution is done. Iranian movies are sometimes made with very modest budgets and this probably affects their distribuition.
I am not that keen on robot films, maybe because they are becoming more and more sophisticated.
But in older films like Bicentennial Man I often have the impression that the robots are a methaphor of dehumanized humans that long for their lost humanity.

Robots may be a metaphor for dehumanized humans. That seems to be how I looked at them in the past when I was not thinking about artificial intelligence.

There is also an artificial intelligence perspective claiming that human consciousness can be generated by running a program in a robot. That cultural idea would be a way to dehumanize a human being, basically reduce the human being's consciousness to what the robot can simulate.

I don't know how the distribution is done for those films, but now that it is in my mind, when I see it, I'll check it out. Have you seen any others that you would rate as highly as you did The Salesman?

I am very much afraid of this AI perspective. I don´t think that human inteligence will desapear as long as there are humans, but there are also groups that want to dominate other people and they might use AI or genetic means that aren´t known yet, like in Brave New World, where they have four or five genetic classes of people.

I don´t go as often to the cinema as I used to. But I noticed that one can find a lot of good films in the net. For example "Dreams" and "Dodeskaden" by Kurosawa are among my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toZhE2nfMLk

I found "Dreams", but they have taken a lot of the films out. Well, who doesn´t want to watch good films for free?

I found Dreams. I liked that bright umbrella in the rainy darkness at the beginning of the movie.

One could physically dominate others using AI. That still assumes the others are human beings. A subtle form of dominance would be to get human beings to think that that they are mechanistic machines that some future science will be able to manipulate. Since we don't know what science could be capable of in the future we assume anything might happen. That is a kind of cultural dominance. What makes it not dominance is that even the people doing this dominating are under the same hypnotic spell. Culturally today it is easier to believe science can do anything than it is to think gods, muses or magicians have similar unlimited potential.

But human science has its limits too. One notices that when science manages to find the cure for an illness others appear.

The unknown girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKLk-LizyI

Dedicated doctor seeks to find out what happened to a girl that was found dead, shortly after she refused to admit her to the clinic because it was closed.
Score:8,0

I can see how the doctor would be motivated to find out more about the unknown girl. I'll see if I can find it.

We watched an old movie written by Sidney Sheldon in the late 1940's: The bachelor and the bobby-soxer https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the...e_bobby_soxer/

I was amazed at how funny this was and how it kept our interest all the way through. Score: 8/10

A remarcable cast Yes/No. How old would Shirley Temple be at the time of the movie?
The unknown girl has much of a documentary. I am pretty sure the protagonist was specially prepared to handle the patients.

Shirley Temple was born in 1928 and the movie came out in 1947. She may have been 19. She was playing a 17-year-old in the movie. She looked the right age. We mainly watched the movie because Sheldon wrote the screen play.

That´s interesting. I thought she was only a child actress.
Where do you watch the new films if you want to, I mean if you don´t find them at your library? Have you got Netflix or something similar?
I used to go to the cinema almost every weekend, but it has become difficult because all the public events in São Paulo happen in the street were most of the cinemas are.

Born into this, a documentary on Charles bukowski. Also: the following films directed by kelly Reichardt

Old Joy
Wendy and Lucy
Meek's Cutoff
Night Moves
Certain Women

I think Shirley Temple is mainly known as a child actress, Danik. I remember seeing some of them that made it on TV long ago. We usually get movies from the library which also has an online source called Hoopla. No driving required since the library is walking distance. There is also YouTube especially for documentaries. We rarely go to a cinema.

I found "Born into this" on YouTube, Tony. I may watch some of it.

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I think Shirley Temple is mainly known as a child actress, Danik. I remember seeing some of them that made it on TV long ago. We usually get movies from the library which also has an online source called Hoopla. No driving required since the library is walking distance. There is also YouTube especially for documentaries. We rarely go to a cinema.

I found "Born into this" on YouTube, Tony. I may watch some of it.

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It is very good.

Yes, it is a good documentary. I remember reading something about him years ago and this confirms my impression of what he was like.

I asked mainly, because I noticed that one of the big sources of free movies and music "You Tube" is changing is policy, at least here in Brazil. I found "The bachelor and ..." for download but I don´t think they were free downloads. Also I looked for videos of the Lollapalooza shows tht took place in SãoPaulo this weekend. Some guy put them into You Tube, but they were all taken all out again.
So Yes/no, Tony or any one who is in habit of downloading You Tube films or music had better see if there has been any change in his/her country in that aspect