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Film This Week in Film: Paranormal Activity and Surrogates
Posted by Lindy West on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Andrew Wright approves of Paranormal Activity:
The premise is ingenious in a way that’s maybe only possible on a microbudget: After a young woman begins to complain about hearing strange (and, more ominously, strangely familiar) sounds after dark, her type-A tech-head boyfriend hooks up a camera in their bedroom to document any late-night shenanigans. Heh heh heh, as the Cryptkeeper used to say.
To get the most value out of Jonathan Mostow’s Surrogates, I very much recommend first watching Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer. A sleep dealer is an actual person; a surrogate is a robot. A sleep dealer is a Mexican who ensouls a robot and becomes a worker in the U.S.; a surrogate is a consumer ensouled by a U.S. citizen. Put both films together, and we get a future world of robot workers and consumer robots.
Read and comment on both reviews HERE.
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