Comments on: Hmmm… http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hmmm/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hmmm/#comment-2370 KF Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:46:34 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=986#comment-2370 <p>I’d completely forgotten about the Sixth Sense—so yeah, it’s got to be something in the air.  But what?  What is it that’s got so many writers/producers/development execs all thinking “but he’s really <i>dead,</i> get it?” Some wish-fulfillment representation of death as being exactly like this life, so much so that we won’t even know the difference?  Some comforting assumption that everything we can’t comprehend can be explained by death? </p> <p> Maybe it is just an overworked coolish idea, but I still want to know why so many folks had roughly the same idea at roughly the same time… </p> I’d completely forgotten about the Sixth Sense—so yeah, it’s got to be something in the air.  But what?  What is it that’s got so many writers/producers/development execs all thinking “but he’s really dead, get it?” Some wish-fulfillment representation of death as being exactly like this life, so much so that we won’t even know the difference?  Some comforting assumption that everything we can’t comprehend can be explained by death?

Maybe it is just an overworked coolish idea, but I still want to know why so many folks had roughly the same idea at roughly the same time…

]]> By: BT http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hmmm/#comment-2369 BT Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:04:10 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=986#comment-2369 <p>Haven’t seen VS, but I’d make the case that it’s somewhat zeitgeist-y, if not just about a coolish idea being worked over rather thoroughly by Hollywood, which happens a lot—the solution to The Others is essentially a version of that in The Sixth Sense, no? </p> Haven’t seen VS, but I’d make the case that it’s somewhat zeitgeist-y, if not just about a coolish idea being worked over rather thoroughly by Hollywood, which happens a lot—the solution to The Others is essentially a version of that in The Sixth Sense, no?

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hmmm/#comment-2368 KF Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:54:25 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=986#comment-2368 <p>Okay, so he produced hers.  And then there was the split.  And then he shows up in his, with Penelope.  Whatever.  The question I’ve got:  is the fact that the solution to the mystery is roughly the same in both movies just attributable to the cultural zeitgeist, or is there something else at work here, something to do with their relationship? </p> Okay, so he produced hers.  And then there was the split.  And then he shows up in his, with Penelope.  Whatever.  The question I’ve got:  is the fact that the solution to the mystery is roughly the same in both movies just attributable to the cultural zeitgeist, or is there something else at work here, something to do with their relationship?

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