{"id":36734,"date":"2013-06-28T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=36734"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:42:53","slug":"movie-philosophy-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=36734","title":{"rendered":"Change Equals Death: Movie Philosophy 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A while ago (or, this morning, as far as the time of the actual writing of this post is concerned) Facebook<\/a> announced they would be rolling out the Twitter device of hashtags<\/a> as a new tool for users of the social networking site. You\u2019ll note I didn\u2019t just say \u201ca new tool for everyone,\u201d because yes, I actually know some people who are still not connected to Facebook at all. They are still my \u201cfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n

(If you aren\u2019t familiar with hashtags, my explanation would be #worsethanuseless)<\/p>\n

Anyway, that news, which I received courtesy of MSNBC\u2019s Morning Joe<\/em> broadcast, had host Joe Scarborough asked by co-host Mika Brzezinski if he \u201cknew what that meant.\u201d He nodded, she shrugged. I had an immediate grumpy old man reaction inside my head, which instantly brought to mind the following exchange from Woody Allen\u2019s great 1992 film Husbands and Wives:<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabe<\/strong> Change equals death!<\/p>\n

Judy<\/strong> What kind of bullshit is that? That’s just a bullshit line! Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that’s some kind of a, an insight or something, but it means nothing! Change is what life is made of! Change – if you don’t change, you don’t grow, you just shrivel up!<\/p>\n

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Is Gabe right\u2026or is Judy right? How does this observation relate to you\u2026 not just to your reaction to the \u201cFacebook hashtag\u201d news, but to the movies\u2026to your life?<\/p>\n

Does change equal death? Time for some Socratic dialogue. Our symposium is the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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