Some might call this an allegory about the real world. by 1kiki

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Some might call this an allegory about the real world.

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Saturday, March 19, 2016 4:08 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

The Kármán Line is the elevation above which there's too little atmosphere to support aerodynamic flight. It's one measure of the boundary between earth and outer space.

The Kármán Line

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Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:17 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I saw this and bawled thru the last third.

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Maybe it's because in the past month three people that I work with just had their parents die, but to me, it's an allegory of death.

Because it IS like death. Death is a physical process, like the woman ascending. It occurs in stages: First this happens, then that. It's measurable, even predictable. But like the woman ascending, it's inexorable and mysterious. Nobody can stop it, or even explain it, really. You wait for the experts to provide a solution, but they can't. They can only talk about staying comfortable and making provisions. The people who love you work through it in steps, sometimes holding on and sometimes letting go. I thought the movie did an excellent job at showing something that we treat as commonplace - death- for the mystery that it really is.

Thanks for bringing it to the board

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016 4:16 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

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I noticed at the end the dedication 'to mum'. I think it was based on the real death of a mother, and I hope the death of the mum was as transcendent as pictured. But I thought it does show the process from both sides. The dying person at first trying to keep up with regular life, then fretting about the things they can no longer participate in, then trying to distract themselves from the situation .. and so on. But what it showed to me was that death is a journey we all must take alone. No one can come with us, no one can face it for us. And death is also a process for the living, except they continue on and have to try to patch over the hole it leaves.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016 8:43 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

“On-the-nose metaphors —— I love that,” young British filmmaker Oscar Sharp said. “I love being like, Let’s play a game where we all know what we’re talking about here, and here’s the metaphor, and let’s just run with it.” He became animated. “In a way —— do you know what? All of the stories that have lasted the longest in our species —— the fairy tales, and the legends, and the myths, all of them, one way or another —— work like that. They’re an impossible thing that everyone knows is a metaphor for this possible thing. I’m sure that there were a lot of not fantastical, not impossible, not metaphorical stories that people used to tell that mostly just buggered off, they just died.” We love impossible things, he said, because they “help us talk about what it’s like to be a person in a way that’s easier and more fun.”

www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/the-screening-room-the-karman-l
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