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From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: re: Brainstorm loose ends
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 19:51:49 EST
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Talking about Louise Fletcher's death in BRAINSTORM.

 >Clearly brain-death hadn't happened, since the machine was
 >still recording information from the brain.  Those weren't
 >the experiences of her soul, those were subjective
 >impressions of random signals as the brain broke down--a
 >cross between phosphenes and dreaming.  

There may be some indication that she was directing them, but it takes
some decoding.  I think there is the implication that she came from a
religious background and still took it seriously.  {WOW! How did he get
that out of the film???}  Well, it's like this.  We see her on the roof
of a building talking to a man with heavy eyebrows.  He obviously is
someone whose opinion she considers important.  Elsewhere in the film
there is a scene in a cathedral and this same heavy-eyebrowed man is
leading the service.  I believe the end credits also list someonw as a
clergyman.  This all might imply someone with deep religious
convictions who keeps them out of her work.  I have known people much
like that in the scientific community.  Admittedly none of this do I
have a really strong case for, but I think the implication is hidden
there.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper