(Dec 3, 2016 05:18 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]The whole idea of a clairvoyant being present/involved at the greatest moment in man's history was too much for me. Turned me right off. Giant squids didn't help much either. When I get like that early in a flick I have trouble refocusing on the rest of the film.
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Zinjanthropos Wrote:Can't remember the line near the end so I'm paraphrasing but it went something like 'Let's go make a baby" . How many times has that line been uttered by a guy hoping for sexual conquest? How many times has it been successful? 
I'd rather believe MR's stories before anything that movie put forward.
I agree with you that the seppuku was out of place in Hacksaw Ridge because there was no backdrop from a Japanese perspective.
Clairvoyant probably a bad choice of word. I realize she was flashing forward (does direction mean anything in circular time?) but there was a point in the movie where a squid told her she could see into the future. This was probably due to her understanding the language, she writes a book about it, no? So I'm sitting there wondering if anybody else who understands the squids would feel the same affects. I envisioned squid language being taught in schools all around the world at that point. I figured if a squid tells her she can see into the future because of her understanding of the language then what is going to happen when a good chunk of the world understands it too. Why wait 3000 years for them to return to teach us their technology when all we'd have to do is look in to (or back to) the future?
SQUID POWER
This might be good. I can’t really tell. It’s based on a 2013 novel by David Eggers.
"Secrets are Lies", "sharing is caring," and "privacy is theft."