[HPFGU-OTChatter] Am Psycho and A.I.

[Amber]

--- Amy Z <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just going to have to take Heidi's word on this 
> one, because wild horses couldn't make me read American Psycho again,
> much less watch it.  I read part of it for a class, called the 
> professor and said I'd have to skip that day's discussion, and 
> suffered waking nightmares for weeks.  I can still get ill thinking 
> about it.  Bret Easton Ellis is unreadable in the best of 
> circumstances, IMNSHO, but when he writes detailed descriptions of 
> women being tortured to death, I just put the book down.

Ugh, I can't believe I read that book on my own volition. I first saw
the movie because my best friend is in love with Christian Bale (she
also is really interested in psychopaths). Well, the movie ended very
unsatisfactorily for me; it ended with too many questions unanswered.
So I read the book to see if perhaps they were answered there. 

And I thought the movie was twisted.

Same with Amy, I had waking nightmares because it was so graphic in
parts. Going to sleep at night for awhile was horrendous. And the book
didn't answer a darn thing!

I refuse to watch horror flicks or read horror novels anymore. After
seeing "The Cell" and not being able to close my eyes because all I
could see was the torture scenes, I told myself that I couldn't take it
anymore. There's a quote somewhere that says the torture Hell can
devise is nothing compared to what people can dream up and do to each
other every day. While I've never been to Hell, I can't help but feel
that this sentiment has some truth to it.

On a completely different note, A.I. opens tomorrow! Woohoo! <does the
robot dance in celebration> Computer philosophy rules!

~Amber


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