Postby Technomancer » Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:56 pm
I was disappointed with it. The animation is great, and the premise is very interesting, but the plot is ultimately lacking. To begin with, you have a series of apparently random acts by different characters that take far too long to come together. When they finally do though, the movie ends very abruptly without any meaningful resolution, and leaving many dangling plot threats.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
