First up was “Seduction Theory”, only 20something minutes of it.
Meh.
Picked it because I haven’t seen Michael Cumpsty in a while, and the flick was short, and it threatened to have some nice scenery in it. Wellp, I didn’t waste too much time.
Basically, a kid’s a bedwetter with “issues” (duh, really?), has a shrink for a father, a hamster-murdering little sister, perhaps overcoddling mother, and, well, no wonder the kid’s f’ed up.
It used some kind of symbolism where the same kid was playing himself in his 20s and 30s and maybe older, “dating” this little chickie who left him in his older years after a brief tryst, etc. And I’m, like, “wtf??”.
Like I said, I only wasted 20something minutes of my time. I’m not sure what was the point of the movie. It wasn’t bad, just confusing.
Next up was “Human Nature”, an awesome doc about gene-splicing, CRISPR, curing genetic diseases, and ethical issues about “tweaking” the genome.
It’s technical, but describes things pretty well for the layman. Good graphics illustrating the concepts, too.
And then there’s the human side: the kid with sickle-cell anæmia, the mother whose kid died from a genetic disease, etc., and issues such as whether/not we should “play God” to cure these diseases or even wipe those diseases permanently from the gene-pool, were all explored.
Hey, if you want to get a head start creating minions of Replicants, Übers, and/or Augments, this is the way to go!