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Episode 92 of Pressed & Bound is online! This week we have several people walk in front of our camera. One guy has a red jacket. In this week’s episode we discuss:
Books:
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
At the Moving Picture Show:
Alice in Wonderland
Movies:
Carmen Jones
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Alice in Wonderland did have pretty weak storytelling. The big prophesy was used as a plot device more than anything else, and that really bugged me. It’s as if Alice says to herself at the end, “Well, that’s clearly a picture of me in the scroll, and it also says I win. Guess I’ll go do that now.”
Still, it was a cool visual experience. If nothing else, Tim Burton is good at eye candy. I also liked Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, and Stephen Fry. They did a nice job with pretty poorly written characters.
This movie has almost nothing to do with the books. What it does have in common is the the poem “Jabberwocky.” I found myself reciting the poem with the characters at different times.
Anyway, that’s what I think. This isn’t a movie taken from Alice in Wonderland. It’s a movie taken from “Jabberwocky.”
It was just a big disappointment for me. The group of people I went with all said that they were bored. It’s simply a boring movie, which is a shame.
Since you liked Freakonomics you would probably like the works of Malcolm Gladwell – Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers are all good reads.
However, with the economic/statistical viewed approach in Freakonomics and the like, understanding the difference between correlation and causation in key.
Some call this category of thinking “behavioral economics”; Another one in this vein is Predictably Irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions by Dan Ariely.
Good show. Like the new movie segment.
Interesting; I’ll have to look into it.