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I'll have to rewatch. I saw it when I was much younger too. In defense, I think "weird" is overly dismissed in film. The intent of some sequences like this is

by ethbro 8y ago

I'll have to rewatch. I saw it when I was much younger too. In defense, I think "weird" is overly dismissed in film. The intent of some sequences like this is to make the audience surprised or uncomfortable (the soundtrack at Do Long Bridge in Apoc Now?), which gets dismissed as a director simply making bad choices. My personal bugaboo is programmers chuckling knowingly at the CG in Hackers: "That's not what code looks like." Well, no shit Sherlock, maybe it was an artistic choice to try to convey the experience of debugging to an audience who wouldn't be able to understand C on the screen?

karmajunkie 8y ago
> Well, no shit Sherlock, maybe it was an artistic choice to try to convey the experience of debugging to an audience who wouldn't be able to understand C on the screen? Man if that's what debugging is like for you, I need to get ahold of whatever you're on when you crank up gdb. For me, accountants poring over tax returns and corporate statements is much closer to the reality of it.
- ethbro 8y ago
  Maybe it is different for me then? I'd definitely describe my flow state as much less about characters and more a synesthesia-eque mental visualization of data structures and interfaces.