tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post9154908046999425847..comments2024-03-17T20:50:21.456-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: This Week in Geek (12-18/12/16)Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-47987021882890305812016-12-21T10:00:58.393-04:002016-12-21T10:00:58.393-04:00Anon: I'm not sure that's what's happe...Anon: I'm not sure that's what's happening there.<br /><br />Tony: And all it would have taken is a line of dialog that said accents were part of muscle memory, or actual speech therapy as part of the convalescence. As it is, it's a distracting plot hole. I can believe I'd have to retrain myself to speak with a new mouth, but total loss of accent when cognitively controlled by another mind?<br /><br />If that mind exists, of course. If you're just brainwashing people into thinking they're other people, then the movie falls apart completely because there's no real point. But even if we deduce this logic, which is fine, it fails the dramatic needs of the story. It's not played as a reveal (ahhh that's why he doesn't have the accent), it's played like his mind's really in there, but is rejected by the body over time unless anti-rejection drugs are taken. Self/Less is just slightly out of focus on those points.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-77957589073227330942016-12-18T23:08:37.203-04:002016-12-18T23:08:37.203-04:00This is the problem everyone had with it, but when...This is the problem everyone had with it, but when you really think about it, the argument makes no sense: It's Ryan's character who speaks, not Ben's. His character speaks as he always did, stands as he always did, walks as he always did. The difference is in the thoughts, because that's what was transplanted, the <i>memory</i> not the <i>muscle memory</i>...Tony Laplumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07854455859399339169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-23983123738988651032016-12-18T12:20:25.720-04:002016-12-18T12:20:25.720-04:00Surprised nobody seems to be bothered by Nocturnal...Surprised nobody seems to be bothered by Nocturnal Animals weird slant on abortion shaming. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com