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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Mark Flynn)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: _1984_  (spoiler)
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 17:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 16 17:33:00 1985
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> 
>                                _1984_
> 
>                           by Kelvin Thompson
> 
>  _1984_ is a bad, utterly depressing, anti-humanist movie.  The producer
>  of the movie has claimed that at its heart the movie is a love story, but
>  in truth it is a relentless attack on the nobility of the human
>  condition.

Perhaps you didn't know, but there is a book by the same name.  Written by some
Orwell guy.  Anyways, that was utterly depressing as well.  In fact, I believe
it was intended to be.  As far as it being anit-humanist, I believe that you're
confusing the description of an anti-humanist state with the advocation of it.





						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
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