--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Hugo" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: > > > > Saying it with authority might be tricky as there are > > several ways it could have happened, Hawking's idea > > involves two universes with time running in opposite > > directions, which should drive any theologians crazy as > > it forms no part of any explanation they've ever come up > > with. > > Cool. In our universe, we're living out the sequential, > time-running-forward plots of 99.99% of the movies ever > made. In the other universe, it's more like Christopher > Nolan's brilliant "Memento."
One of my faves. Didn't know it was a Chris Nolan movie, he made those excellent Batman films with Christian Bale I think. A considerable improvement on the Val Kilmer efforts! > If you haven't seen it, Guy Pearce's character has a real- > life problem (meaning that it exists) -- he is unable to > form short-term memories. Thus he must go through his life > writing notes to himself, because in two minutes he won't > remember what it is he's writing, or that what he writes > about ever happened. Add to this the fact that the whole > film is told backwards, starting from the end and moving > to the beginning, and you have yerself one heckuva Quantum > Tunneling movie. Not quite, of course, but as close as we > can probably come to imagining life in this other "back- > wards time" universe. I rented the DVD and it has the whole thing re-edited to run forwards in time so you can check that it all makes sense. It does. I'd never have Guessed Guy Pearce would make such a good actor after his start in Aussie soap Neighbours.
