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On 17/11/2019 11:28, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 17.11.2019 02:54, Mr Flibble wrote:
>> Hi!
>> [snip] if Brazil is a good film or not?
> 
> It's a classic, but to enjoy it one must have at least some residual 
> freedom urge and residual ability to think about things.
> 
> One person in my family, with an amazing almost photographic memory, but 
> old now and throughout her life a strict flock follower, i.e. she has a 
> very strong herd instinct, disliked it intensely. I think her instincts 
> made her blind to many aspects of the story in the movie, so much that it 
> became meaningless to her. That phenomenon has also happened in this 
> group, then about other things: herd instinct makes blind, so that the 
> responses are not even wrong, just technically completely baffling.
> 
> Btw. this is not the elderly lady that Francis Glassborow used to 
> test-read his introductory C++ text book. I've never met Francis. That's a 
> different family (if his reader was family, which I suspect).

Oh I love the film Brazil which is why it doesn't require much thought on 
my part on deciding if it is a good film or not. :D

/Flibble

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Brazil Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2019-11-17 01:54 +0000
  Re: Brazil "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-17 12:28 +0100
    Re: Brazil Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2019-11-17 15:21 +0000

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