Posted by Noa on January 8, 2000, at 0:52:57
In reply to Re: Movie Therapy, posted by Cass on January 8, 2000, at 0:29:23
In Play it Again Sam, one of the characters (cannot recall name) is constantly calling his answering service to let them know what number he is at ("I'm now at ###-####. In five minutes, I'll be walking by the pay phone on the corner of whatever and whatever. Then I'll be at ...."
I think of this all the time, and think it was prophetic. Look at how "connected" we all are now. How often do we check our messages, carry our cell phones, etc etc. Woody Allen also calls attention to another technofad in Crimes and Misdemeanors. There, it is the Alan Alda character who is constantly recording little memos to himself on his mini-dication tape recorder. I haven't seen all his recent films. Has he featured a palm pilot device yet? Or the internet?BTW, there is also a good line in Play it again, Sam, where the Woody Allen character says something like, I would have called my shrink, but he was out of town because it was August. In August all the psychiatrists evacuate the city, and all the patients go nuts for the month. (Actually, if someone remembers the actual wording, please remind me, it is doubtless much funnier than my paraphrase).
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