I like New Orleans. Coming from the early days of Hi-Tech, I can still remember what life and interaction were like before it went Viral. New Orleans feels like that, I guess more so than other places at least. I couldn't give up the conveniences of living in a Zone, serviced by Hi-Tech for most needs, but at least there it isnt in your face every minute of the day, humming drone ads abuzz in the night betwixt the stars and skyscrapers of Mega-metropolis Zones like NY and SF. In New Orleans you can still hail a TapTaxi and expect a human to be in the emergency operator's seat.
the things you dont tell your friends
"She Shoulda Said No!" So in this film stuff happens, so much stuff, and it is insane, but none of that matters. The protag's brother at some point in the film hangs himself. There is a moment of perfect acting in this scene that took me away. The brother is hanging in the garage, long dead from the way the shot frames it, he was hanging in the garage long dead from the frame of it She approaches the garage and there isn't an immediate reaction There is no immediate reaction. She just sees it. As if it were a meadow, or a curious bug flittering past. Her head leans almost imperceptibly, she is now looking at it quizzically, like there is some knowing to the seeing but there is a disconnect. Like watching a hard drive spin, this is the machine at work, trying to employ a solution to the wonder of what is seen, because the conclusion musn't be the conclusion. There is now a part of the brain that knows what it has seen, and has placed all senses and systems to the...
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