Saw Divergent last night...I liked it: I can see how people considered it "Hunger Games revisited", but really it's a considerably different post-apocalyptic scenario. I won't go into any details of the review, although suffice it to say that its "Young Adult Themes" comes crashing through the narrative. Not that that's bad, but depending on the filmic treatment, it may be somewhat boring or hackneyed to older viewers. But as I said, I enjoyed it, and particularly found myself aligning with the core concept of "creative thinkers are dangerous to a highly structured and deeply controlling power structure". The amazing thing is that people are so enamored with structure, they often want to toss creatives under the bus (metaphorically and actually, in some cases). My mind set is different (but then I have seldom experienced the starvation and deprivation that true lack of structure can bring), so I will always opt for the protagonists in such a film (since the filmmakers, being creatives themselves, seldom throw the creative, divergent characters under the bus).
But what of my previous post, and my discussion of erotic attraction, its forms and its functions? I guess that I have to be in the right mind for that, although I've seen a couple of women in the last week that veritably took my breath away. Not that I showed that in any why - I seem to be on a truly protracted celibacy kick here, but at least it's nice to realize that I can still be affected by a beautiful woman. This may well end up being a double post day - I have a strong desire to talk more about erotic themes, and yet "not right at this moment", so with that, I'll jet off with the intention of picking this up later!



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