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24-Oct-2013 #1

Neil

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12 Years A Slave [film]

Seems to be getting epic reviews! - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/64779

This is what great art is meant to do - to teach, to enlighten, and to bring us inside. This is no mere history lesson - instead, we get to live in it, despair in it, and at last, hope in it. This is cinema at its most magnificent.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
-Carl Sagan