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Week 4 / assignment 1             

Review of the film: "The Incredible Shinking World"  - playing in your local theather now.

             This is film that one needs to see to understand the what can happen when the voice that have been so long silenced through distance and the ability to reach out to the masses, are suddenly calling out from allconcers of the world. Distance and even time is destroyed through sciencetific advances that make the vocies from distant areas of our earth reach out and shake the foundations that have so long kept societies separated from each other.

            View the video and see the world as we know it chnage from the large sphere that allows distance to make a difference in who wil  and will not be heard by the masses, to an incredible world that has been transformed into a flat environment in which all the voices can be heard by any of those who care to cry out. This is video that is frightening in its presentation that the changes that can be brought about in a new environment in which the boundries and barriers that have seperated us for so long are destroyed through the attack of modern technology.

             The major role played by Brad Pitt, presents  new face to the revolutionaries who want to destoy the old order of the exchange of information and goes so far as to change the entire basis of what was once viewed as the literate intelligencia. PItt does an excellent job in portraying a man with a vision that is misundestood by many as a threat to the entire social ordeer that has held the world together. His nemisis, the Elder, played by Jack Nicholson - does all he can to maintain the old order and stop the flattening of the world and save the way of life we have accepted as the way things must be. Nicolson, does an amazing job of showing that progress and change can do as much harm as the weapons we have created to destory the earth. His speech about information and an its power linked the ability to reach the masses through new tachnology is eye-opening. His fear of this new "Flat World" that allows for expressions from the masses throughout the eintire world sends shuttders down the spine of the estblished powers.

               This is a must see film that pints a picture of what is confronting the world now as either an opportunity to allow technollgy to make things better or tearing down the foundations of the world as we know it. And the picture that is presented as to what the world could become.  In won't be till the end of the picture when it is revealed who is the hero and who is the villian. Pick your seats now, becuase this will be one of the ten best films of the year.